Every year on Aug. 15, the president of South Korea delivers a speech commemorating Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule.
But while presidents typically hold forth on patriotism, national glory and crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists, Yoon Suk-yeol’s speech this year was different. He did not discuss Japanese misdeeds but instead focused on one of the paradoxes of liberation — the peninsula’s division into North and South.
Every year on Aug. 15, the president of South Korea delivers a speech commemorating Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule.
But while presidents typically hold forth on patriotism, national glory and crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists, Yoon Suk-yeol’s speech this year was different. He did not discuss Japanese misdeeds but instead focused on one of the paradoxes of liberation — the peninsula’s division into North and South.
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