ah, i melissa chant, thanks for joining us. south korea plans to help victims of forced labor during japan's occupation of the country from 1910 to the end of world war 2. by paying them with a pool of money from both south korean and japanese corporations. sol has also announced it will stop a complaint it had previously filed against japan at the world trade organization. there are reasons why the 2 countries are trying to build better relations, which we will go into in a moment. but critics say it's coming at a cost down, playing the trauma japan inflicted. here's the story of one elderly korean woman recalling the hardships of those years said that all in her recent autobiography, 92 year old south korean yang. gam doug sets the record straight and describes in detail her experience as a forced laborer for japan's doomed war machine. at age 15, she was lured from japanese colonial korea to mainland japan with the promise of opportunity her family could not afford. oh even till the japanese principal said i could go to junior high school if i went to japan tomorrow. my father said he was lying and wouldn't allow it that i snuck away and dag once in japan, i never even sold the school door. i was taken straight to mitsubishi industries, where i was worked nearly to death before. if i had wanted to be a teacher, but yang worked at the mitsubishi plant in nagoya, from june 1944 to october, 1945. the painted umbrella. bell woke us at 6 a. m and we went to the camp to work 8 or 10 hours, but they made me paint aeroplanes. they didn't have a lot of for us. so i used wide planks, climbed up and painted left dozen, the pail of paint was too heavy for me. and so to this day, one shoulder still hurts and paint the clinical cliff palmer. yet we had lunch at noon and they gave us each a bowl of rice, but after 5 bites it was gone. and then we had to go back to work. i was always hungry, it appeared in yemen. several of her school friends died in japan. yang still recalls the harsh smell of the factory and sleepless nights. i kept the go up, but sometimes we couldn't sleep because of the bombing of the tower. why we had to spend all night in the air raid shelter and even when we came out and we could still hear the sounds of bombs over and over, thinking up there in the morning. we had to go back to work. the problem from linda that was forced labor survivor, young jim duck. testimonies like hers have garnered great public sympathy in south korea. present, young, secured approval ratings have been low and this moved to patch things up with japan may make him even less popular, but he believes it's necessary. it's a move that looks to the future while trying to put the past behind. wow, there's hardly any one left who remembers 1st hand japan's brutal rule of the korean peninsula in the early 19 hundreds. but some victims in their families say they're still waiting for compensation and an apology under a new plan from so victims of forced labor during japan's occupation will be compensated through a foundation that's funded by south korean companies. instead of direct payments from the japanese firms that profited some victims as well as opposition, groups have condemned the proposal. no, never use them. newton, well, are you not the you suck. your government is pushing ahead with the fro, japanese trade negotiations. will you know that trump along the established legal rights of its citizens, still an exempt japanese war. criminal enterprises from legal responsibility kill. they were poll. come, you know, wasn't the new plan replaces a ruling from south korea's supreme court in 2018 that ordered the japanese companies to pay. tokyo has maintained that the issue of compensation was resolved through a 1965 treaties that laid out post world war 2 diplomatic ties. but it's remained one of the longest running rouse between the 2 nations and is contributed to trade disputes. south korea's conservative president, even so, gal has made strengthening ties with japan, a top priority since he took power in may. 2022. and tokyo has welcomed the move and gone. japan and south korea are important neighbors to each other. you must corporate in dealing with various challenges in the international community. the 2 countries and their leaders have communicated closely since the launch of the suck, yolande ministration. remove this amended, there's been pressure to end the dispute from afar tune as major allies to the united states. washington has been pushing for a resolution with looming regional challenges like north korea and china's growing power. good will, between tokyo and soul is seen as crucial for a united front. we at ward senior fellow at the international institute for strategic studies. thanks for joining us. i'm robert. as the report mentioned at south korea, as president you insecure is conservative, which tends to mean someone who is pretty nationalistic, and yet he's, it looks like he's trying to set this war time grievance aside. what's driving that? well, i think it's important to remember, this is one of the most true japan governments in korea for many, many years. i'd argue that absence can they job was present in 2003. so this is the initiative by, by president you, he's aware that he's going to limit the choke like soft grid. presidents can only be long term. they've got, he's got government, that's the letters that the elections next year. 2020 goal. so he's window goal changing vendors regard gotten the relationship is pretty small. so i think he's trying to make use of the time that he has to pursue the relationship forward. i want to play comments from the south korean president you insecure and japanese prime minister from jo tissue to have a listen. you're going to be clear about future orientated cooperation between south korea and japan. will preserve freedom, peace, and prosperity. not only for the 2 countries, but also for the entire world say, considering this international situation and teach can environment or can i recognize the import enough of cooperation between japan and south korea. between japan is united states and south korea. they hit the coast robert, how valid our japans and south korea concerns about china? well, china, or is it all this is making well in every sphere from the economy to security issues, ab 60 down in the middle, china. so everybody about korea, what china is doing is we're in the, obviously, the japan, they are doing lots of reforms in terms of being dependent, spending, new, new military kids and so on. south career is just come out with a specific strategy, which is, which is, are not welcome development for the end up being more, more broadly. so, i think one of the interesting things, is that how, what's going on in ukraine's the rushes invasion ukraine have? i think japan are great in addition to the issues with china, with their religion as well to, to try to push the improvement in the relations and try to accelerate this improvement by the side. all worried about taiwan. both sides worried about chinese coalition move more broadly in the region. and of course, the regional stability, the corporation between japan and south korea is absolutely essential. both are allies of the u. s. triangular corporation is absolutely critical for, for the ability of the us and the like minded to schools based on the region. what do you expect will be potential avenues of cooperation as you say, between the 2 over the next few years. well, a clearly big area of cooperation and it's guarantee issues the to japan, about korea before relation job a couple of years ago. there was some cooperation. it would be good, very welcome. i think from the point of view, if that corporations deeper and the, the, the try, your relationship is more stable with pushing their good sign in the japanese either this is what i want in the december 20 to new national security strategy. very importantly, japan referred to the south career as a, as an important goal, japan and not having such a job a security. so i think there is some sort of optimism within japanese government that this, this relationship can be i think from japan of point of view as well. they would welcome more creat involvement in the end of japan as an index to be contacts in terms of framing policy towards the region that had been a sort of south korea shaped hole in the, in the pacific network. but president, you're trying to fill that out. so be interesting to see how much corporation there is within the in the pacific framework as well as the ecology, for example, the south korea also as a joining the talks the pacific economic framework of the us launch last year as well. so it's all pointing in the right direction, but as ever, with the actual relationship relation are strained in other areas. so won't be to see how, how sustainable is improvement. now, china, well, like any of this, i wonder if any of beijing's concerns are valid. well, if you're sitting in sophia, you're looking at what john is doing around along the looking at the, the cost of intrusion in and around the bank while we're trying to cool design island. so there's a lot of little sustained concern in tokyo about what time you're sitting in solar course. you're looking north with joy yang and you're saying that queried accelerating in w n. d program. constantly testing, massage, and the like in that of course it goes to japan to japan and korea. we're frame this as a, an increase in the deterrents capability and the credibility of the tenants capability just to ensure that the cap that they can influence the calculations. katherine's and a towards them in, in pyongyang, and raging of course going raging will complain about this. obviously, as, as we saw recently complained about the depends on the way michigan robert ward. thank you so much for joining us. thank you. that's it for today. there's more on our website, d, w dot com, 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