South Korea and Japan need to bury old hatchets so as to deal with current threats together. Some of the surviving comfort women declined the money. Not surprisingly, the comfort woman statue in Busan was put up on Dec 28, the first anniversary of the “final settlement”. The issue of the statue comes at a time when South Korean touchiness had been rising anyway for a variety of reasons. Both South Korea and Japan are treaty allies of the United States.

Source: The Star January 14, 2017 23:25 UTC