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From a rational point of view, such behaviors and attitudes of Koreans can only be described as causing hysteria.
South Korea is the only place in the world that defines the Rising Sun Flag as a war criminal flag and shows a sense of refusal in the national unity government. There is no objective evidence that the Rising Sun Flag is a war criminal flag. There are only arbitrary and one-sided claims from Koreans.
Many Koreans spread the claim that it was a war criminal flag because it was used when the Japanese Empire at the time of the Pacific War invaded Asian countries. However, if you think about it in this way, the flags of most major countries, such as the British flag, the French flag, the German flag, the Spanish flag, and the Dutch flag today would all become war criminal flags.
Furthermore, even the Star-Spangled Banner of the United States cannot escape this treatment and would be see as a war criminal flag. In the past imperialist era, Western powers' aggression and attitude toward Asia, Africa, South America, etc. were at the same level as Japan.
The fact that the behavior and attitude of the Koreans who are obsessed with the Rising Sun Flag is unreasonable is that, it was not the Rising Sun Flag that was mainly pushed to the front when the Japanese army fought in the past, but the Japanese flag. In other words, if you want to put the war criminal flag on Japan, don't go after the Rising Sun Flag but the Japanese Flag, then it would be a story that makes sense.
It seems that there are quite a few Koreans who equate the Rising Sun Flag with the Nazi flag (Swastika) and at the same time spread the claim that the Rising Sun Flag should be banned by law, just as the Nazi flag is banned by current law. By the way, such a claim is, in a word, ignorant.
The Nazi party flag is now banned because the Nazi party has committed a rare crime called the Jewish massacre. The Rising Sun Flag has nothing to do with such crimes as racial slaughter. Furthermore, the Nazi party flag was the flag of a political party (Nazi party) that was not at the national level. The Nazi flag and the Rising Sun flag are not comparable to each other in the first place.
Aside from everything, the story is completely different, but I wonder if South Korea today has even the minimum qualifications to ask Japan whether or not it is a flag of war criminals.
The United States, Britain, Australia, and even China, which have fought against Japan in the past, are silent, but for South Korea, who have never fought against Japan, it is now a problem. It is unpleasant for anyone to conclude that the Rising Sun Flag is a war criminal flag.
In conclusion, the Korean claims that the Rising Sun Flag is a war criminal flag is just an unfounded speculation, and the infantile hysteria for the Rising Sun Flag that Koreans show today is therefore at the anti-Japanese level.
*This article is a translation of a contribution by Mr. LUDA, a conservative Korean conservative fund. The Korean version has already been published in the Korean media. We are responsible for the accuracy of the translation.
2021/07/14 21:21 KST
