South Korea

• 
• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/5/2019
  

  The Exhibit Lauded Freedom of Expression. It Was Silenced.

  Statues of so-called comfort women have long been an irritant to Japanese nationalists who dispute that the women were forced into servitude.

• 
• SOURCE: Reuters
  7/8/19
  

  Japan, South Korea raise stakes in dispute over forced labor. History helps explain the conflict.

  The countries share a bitter history dating to Japan’s colonization of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, which saw forced use of labor by Japanese companies and the use of “comfort women”, a Japanese euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.

• 
• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/8/2019
  

  Why Japan and South Korea Still Spar Over History

  Japan’s colonial rule over the Korean Peninsula ended more than seven decades ago yet that legacy still roils everyday politics on both sides of the strait.

• 
• SOURCE: NYT
  11-21-18
  

  South Korea Signals End to ‘Final’ Deal With Japan Over Wartime Sex Slaves

  The deal has been deeply unpopular among South Koreans, including some of the surviving victims, who say it fell short of official reparations and a declaration of legal responsibility on Japan’s part.

• 
• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  5-1-18
  

  U.S. Soldiers Might Be Stuck in Korea Forever

  by Clint Work

  As Trump has already discovered, pulling the military from the Peninsula isn't easy.

• 
• SOURCE: NYT
  4-24-18
  

  The Koreas Are Weighing a Peace Deal. Here’s What That Might Mean.

  While the outlines of an accord between North and South Korea have been considered for decades, there are drastic differences this time.

• 
• 11/12/18
  

  UPDATED Korean Peace Talks

  What historians are tweeting and retweeting.

• 
• SOURCE: NPR
  4-22-18
  

  University of Southern California's David Kang says Korea is the only place on earth where the Cold War continues

  "Nothing has essentially changed since 1945. We are in the same place we were with two regimes nose-to-nose."

• 
• SOURCE: Princeton University Press Blog
  2-21-18
  

  What South Korea can learn from Germany

  by A. James McAdams

  History suggests the enunciation of a South Korean version of Germany’s “change through rapprochement” could be Washington’s best hope.

• 
• SOURCE: NYT
  1-12-18
  

  Japan Balks at Calls for New Apology to South Korea Over ‘Comfort Women’

  On matters of history, Japan and South Korea can never seem to agree to disagree.

• 
• SOURCE: NYT
  12-27-17
  

  Deal With Japan on Former Sex Slaves Failed Victims, South Korean Panel Says

  The conclusions threaten the 2015 agreement over so-called comfort women, forced to work in brothels for the Japanese military from the 1930s until 1945.

• 
• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  11-8-17
  

  Trump has dismissed past presidents' policy toward North Korea as weak, but these documents show they weren't

  Even Dick Cheney rejected the military option in the Bush I administration since it could jeopardize diplomacy.

• 
• SOURCE: South China Morning Post
  11-5-17
  

  South Korean Professor Fined for Book About “Comfort Women,” Proving the Truth Is Still Dangerous

  The case against Park Yu-ha was not about whether her academic research was correct but whether the nine plaintiffs in the defamation suit had been harmed.

• 
• SOURCE: BBC
  7-10-17
  

  'Comfort women': Researchers claim first known film

  South Korea has released what it says is the first known footage of "comfort women" forced to work as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War Two.

• 
• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  6-1-17
  

  Carter documents show how the US reacted when it had a South Korea problem in the 70s

  Carter faced pushback from South Korean leaders and his own top advisors.

• 
• SOURCE: The Washington Examiner
  5-8-17
  

  Trump screamed at national security adviser H.R. McMaster over comments to South Korea

  Trump was livid after reading McMaster called South Korean officials to say Trump's statement that the American ally would have to pay for a missile defense system wasn't official policy.

• 
• SOURCE: NYT
  11-28-16
  

  Amid Scandal, South Korean Officials Retreat on Controversial Textbook Plan

  The South Korean government indicated on Monday that it was rolling back its plan to require schools to use only state-issued history textbooks, an apparent shift for a signature project of President Park Geun-hye as she faces a corruption scandal and an escalating public backlash.

• 
• SOURCE: NYT
  12-29-15
  

  South Korean and Japanese Leaders Feel Backlash From ‘Comfort Women’ Deal

  The leaders of South Korea and Japan faced a barrage of criticism on Tuesday from nationalists upset about a landmark deal aimed at resolving a dispute over Korean women who had been pressed into sexual servitude in Japanese military brothels before and during World War II.

• 
• SOURCE: NYT
  12-28-15
  

  South Korea and Japan Reach Deal on Wartime Sex Slaves

  Japan made an apology and promised an $8.3 million payment as part of a deal to resolve the longstanding dispute over Koreans forced into sexual slavery in World War II.

• 
• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11-3-15
  

  South Korea accused of rewriting history in new school textbook

  South Korea has pushed ahead with a highly controversial plan to introduce government-issued history textbooks in schools, despite angry protests by opposition parties and academics.