Author profile: Yangmo Ku
Yangmo Ku is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Norwich University. His research focuses on the politics of memory and reconciliation in East Asia and Europe, East Asian security, and US foreign policy. His previous research has appeared in numerous journals, including the Journal of East Asian Studies, Asian Perspective, Pacific Focus, and the Yale Journal of International Affairs, as well as in an edited volume, The Routledge Handbook of Memory and Reconciliation in East Asia.

What is it for? Assessing the South Korea-Japan Deal on the Comfort Women Issue

Yangmo Ku • Feb 18 2016 • Articles

The South Korean public believe their government made a humiliating deal with Japan. Thus, the comfort women issue continues as an impediment to reconciliation.

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