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SEOUL –
South Korea praised Japan’s 1995 war statement expressing remorse and apology over its past colonial rule in Asia, including the Korean Peninsula, newly disclosed diplomatic records have shown.
The statement by then-Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, issued on Aug. 15, 1995, to mark the 50th anniversary of his country’s surrender in World War II, was mentioned in the records, released by South Korea’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the records showed that Seoul gave a negative response to a parliamentary remark made later by Murayama that the 1910 treaty under which Japan annexed Korea was “legally valid.”
