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A South Korean protester rips up a Japanese national flag during a protest against Japan's sovereignty claims over the Dokdo islets, which South Korea currently controls, in front of the Japanese Embassy on April 6, 2005 in Seoul, South Korea
Monday, Apr. 05, 2010

Open quoteIt's like digging up bodies and mutilating them. Close quote

  • KIM SOON-CHEOL,
  • an official in Tongyeong, South Korea, criticizing those who want to expose colonial-era pro-Japanese collaborators, most of them already dead, 65 years after the end of World War II
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