(June 26), Government House, August 15, 2001, Kim Dae-jung criticized Japan's distortion of history. the


newspaper in Seoul, August 15 reporters Intensifying reports: South Korean President Kim Dae-jung delivered a speech on the General Assembly, held to commemorate the 56th anniversary of the "Liberation Day" today in the South Korean city of Cheonan, criticized some Japanese forces are trying to distort history and correct understanding of history in Japan.
Kim said his visit to Japan in 1998, the Japanese government of the past and the tremendous damage and suffering caused to the South Korean people formally expressed remorse and apologized. Japan recently part is trying to distort history, cast a shadow over relations between the two countries again. [1 $ dj��.c��m]
He stressed that history is not just the problems of the past, but also a matter of present and future problems. For those who attempt to make people forget or ignore the tremendous disaster to the Korean nation, South Korea can not become good friends with them, can not be together with them safely into the future. Kim, expressed concern that many conscientious Japanese textbooks distorting history and visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, Korea strongly practical understanding of history based on the correct development of the relationship between Korea and Japan.
According to Xinhua News Agency, Seoul, August 15 (Reporter Gao Haorong) - in commemoration of the 56th anniversary of the August 15 Liberation Day ", South Korea, some social groups held rallies and demonstrations on the 15th, to protest Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to the Yasukuni Shrine on the 13th, and asked Japan to modify the distorting history textbooks. The compensation of the
Korean victims of the war in the Pacific Propulsion Committee, National Institute on eight social groups of 500 people held in Seoul on the same day to commemorate the 56th anniversary of the "Liberation Day" rally. After the end of the rally, the participants held a demonstration in Seoul city.