SOUTH KOREA: SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT ROH MOO-HYUN SAYS HE IS READY FOR "DIPLOMATIC WAR" WITH JAPAN

Record ID: 946780

  • Title: SOUTH KOREA: SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT ROH MOO-HYUN SAYS HE IS READY FOR "DIPLOMATIC WAR" WITH JAPAN
  • Date: 22nd March 2005
  • Summary: (W2) SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (MARCH 24, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT ROH MOO-HYUN'S LETTER TO THE PUBLIC ON THE PRESIDENTIAL BLUE HOUSE WEBSITE 0.11 2. HIGHLIGHTED TEXT THAT READS: "The government has no choice but to respond firmly. We cannot overlook the justification of the history of invasion and rule and the intentions to achieve hegemony again because this is an issue where the future of the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia depends on." 0.18 (W2) SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (FILE) (YTN - NO ACCESS SOUTH KOREA) 3. SLV EXTERIOR OF THE PRESIDENTIAL BLUE HOUSE 0.22 (W2) SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (MARCH 23, 2005) (YTN - NO ACCESS SOUTH KOREA) 4. MCU (Korean) PRESIDENTIAL BLUE HOUSE SPOKESMAN KIM MAN-SOO SAYING: "We will not take a step back regardless of any difficulties or falter. We will steadily work on the issue until the public can understand the results." 0.39 (W2) SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (MARCH 24, 2005) (REUTERS) 5. MCU (English) YONSEI UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS LEE JUNG-HOON SAYING: "It's very significant because it marks a turnaround in a way that in regards to Tokto and the territorial claim over the island, that South Korea is going to take a much more proactive and maybe even hostile action to deal with the issue." 1.03 (W2) SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (FILE) (REUTERS) 6. LV INDEPENDENCE DAY CEREMONY 1.08 7. MCU (Korean) PRESIDENT ROH MOO-HYUN SAYING: "(Japan) needs to examine the truth from the past, offer a sincere apology, make compensation if necessary, and reconcile." 1.23 8. SLV ROH 1.28 9. MCU (Korean) PRESIDENT ROH MOO-HYUN SAYING: "Japan also must try to understand the other position. From the forced drafts to the comfort women issues, they must understand the anger our people feel from the pain they experienced during Japan's 36 years of rule, which was a thousand times, ten thousand times more." 1.47 10. LV AUDIENCE WAVING SOUTH KOREAN FLAGS 1.53 11. SV ROH AND FIRST LADY WAVING FLAGS 1.59 (W2) YOUNGCHUN, SOUTH KOREA (MARCH 22, 2005) (YTN - NO ACCESS SOUTH KOREA) 12. LV ARMY GRADUATION CEREMONY 2.05 13. SV ROH SALUTING 2.10 14. MCU (Korean) SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT ROH MOO-HYUN SAYING: "The power domain of Northeast Asia will change depending on which choice we make in the future." 2.19 (W2) JEJU ISLAND, SOUTH KOREA (FILE) (YTN - NO ACCESS SOUTH KOREA) 15. SLV/MCU VARIOUS OF SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT ROH MOO-HYUN AND JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI (4 SHOTS) 2.38 (W2) SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (RECENT) (REUTERS) 16. SLV JAPANESE EMBASSY 2.42 17. SV/MCU OF SOUTH KOREAN FORMER COMFORT WOMEN PROTESTING (3 SHOTS) 2.57 18. CU BURNING JAPANESE FLAG MARKED WITH "X" 3.09 19. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS HOLDING ANTI-JAPANESE DEMONSTRATIONS (3 SHOTS) 3.24 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: SEOUL AND JEJU ISLAND AND YOUNGCHUN, SOUTH KOREA
  • Country: South Korea
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