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Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada on Vietnamese New Year

OTTAWA, Jan. 28, 2017 /CNW/ - The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, issued the following statement today on the Vietnamese New Year:

"In the days ahead, the Vietnamese community in Canada and around the world will mark Tết Nguyên Đán, the Lunar New Year, and welcome the arrival of the year of the Rooster, which in 2017 is also known as the year of the Fire Rooster.

"As family and friends get together and share special meals, Tết Nguyên Đán is an occasion to reflect on the past year and celebrate the arrival of spring.

"This year, as we celebrate our country's 150th anniversary, let us take the opportunity to honour the many cultures, traditions, and beliefs that make Canada such a wonderful place to live. Vietnamese Canadians have made enormous contributions to Canada and have helped make it the strong and diverse place it is today.

"On behalf of our family, Sophie and I wish all those marking this occasion a very happy New Year.

"Chúc mừng năm mới."
 
Isn't that the same thing with every countries?

No, you have one party. Other countries got 2 to 4 different parties.

His very first appearance and already half the forum ( myself included ) feel another *** + hole has just introduced himself.

Corrupted ? Pfff yeah sure that is the word in Vietnam and itself is a grave obstacle to country, but hey in the US and democracies round the world, the world is "Lobbying" or "Fund-raising" and legalize it, any different ? No, except that after Western officials left their seat, they jump right into the patron company, make top bucks instead of just laying around at home. And lol after all these time, people still use the phrase "Their people hate/dont like their own goverment" as a valid point , like American all fall in love with Trump instantly :v If you walk in any neighborhood of California and scream "I love Trump", you would probably go home in a stretcher.

And sure, you had been in love with Trump since 2007, i dig that too. I mean who doesnt like a guy with 10 bil USD of total asset, give or take a bit. But hey, you also like the same guy that said "Grap her by the pu**y" plus numerous controversy comments on other countries and people. And with all the investigation on "Russian hackers sabotaged the election" and Trump reaction to it, it more about "hilarious" than "influential". But of course, with enough money, anybody can be "influential", even the title of Presidency :3

Incorrect.

You can say so to any country in the world, if you believe the information on the Internet.

But If an free election, I mean "real free" is organized tomorrow in the US and Vietnam, I believe the percentage of American who vote for a "Vietnam-style" government will far exceed the percentage of Vietnamese who vote for a America-style government, i.e. the Vietnamese far more trust their own government than the American

Do not say that the US ever has a real free and fair election.

And yes I know in the US, a state secretary can receive some $77M and not considered as "corrupt". Not in Vietnam.

You never live in the USA.

congrats to your first post. actually Vietnam has lots of problems, corruption is just one of them, though it is as severe as foreign aggression. yes the Viet people dislike everything what hinders the own the country to progress. personally I have some hopes. as for Donald Trump, well, he either leads America and the world to a period of peace and prosperity or all of us into the next apocalypse and global holocaust. this incoming new cinema film fits perfect into our time. Kong: Skull Island. played in Vietnam during the war. apocalypse as entertainment.
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Thank you.

His very first appearance and already half the forum ( myself included ) feel another *** + hole has just introduced himself.

Corrupted ? Pfff yeah sure that is the word in Vietnam and itself is a grave obstacle to country, but hey in the US and democracies round the world, the world is "Lobbying" or "Fund-raising" and legalize it, any different ? No, except that after Western officials left their seat, they jump right into the patron company, make top bucks instead of just laying around at home. And lol after all these time, people still use the phrase "Their people hate/dont like their own goverment" as a valid point , like American all fall in love with Trump instantly :v If you walk in any neighborhood of California and scream "I love Trump", you would probably go home in a stretcher.

And sure, you had been in love with Trump since 2007, i dig that too. I mean who doesnt like a guy with 10 bil USD of total asset, give or take a bit. But hey, you also like the same guy that said "Grap her by the pu**y" plus numerous controversy comments on other countries and people. And with all the investigation on "Russian hackers sabotaged the election" and Trump reaction to it, it more about "hilarious" than "influential". But of course, with enough money, anybody can be "influential", even the title of Presidency :3

look up infowars

As usual with you, the more you talk, the more you show your ignorance. Yeah dude, go to pump some iron and leave us alone.

I'm new hear and already sense the amount of ignorance in the air.



Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada on Vietnamese New Year

OTTAWA, Jan. 28, 2017 /CNW/ - The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, issued the following statement today on the Vietnamese New Year:

"In the days ahead, the Vietnamese community in Canada and around the world will mark Tết Nguyên Đán, the Lunar New Year, and welcome the arrival of the year of the Rooster, which in 2017 is also known as the year of the Fire Rooster.

"As family and friends get together and share special meals, Tết Nguyên Đán is an occasion to reflect on the past year and celebrate the arrival of spring.

"This year, as we celebrate our country's 150th anniversary, let us take the opportunity to honour the many cultures, traditions, and beliefs that make Canada such a wonderful place to live. Vietnamese Canadians have made enormous contributions to Canada and have helped make it the strong and diverse place it is today.

"On behalf of our family, Sophie and I wish all those marking this occasion a very happy New Year.

"Chúc mừng năm mới."

Vietnamese community in Canada is very strong. In Canada, we have a Vietnamese Senator. He always carry the South Vietnamese Yellow-3 red stripes flag.

This unique vietnamese martial art Viêt Võ Dao or Vovinam has a story. Born during Vietnam´s darkest hours in the 1930s, the martial art, either armed by primitive weapons or even weaponless, was aimed to fight overwhelming external enemy. the dress´s blue color symbolizes hope.

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Very true.
 
This unique vietnamese martial art Viêt Võ Dao or Vovinam has a story. Born during Vietnam´s darkest hours in the 1930s, the martial art, either armed by primitive weapons or even weaponless, was aimed to fight overwhelming external enemy. the dress´s blue color symbolizes hope.

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Brazilian Capoeira has a similar story and history on how it was formed.

My take on martial arts is that it is very old-school and not beneficial to a typical small-built Vietnamese. Nowadays in vietnam, I'm starting to see Vietnamese young men going to the gym to pump iron and I think that's the right way to go. There are so many skinny viet guys who are barely 100 pounds and after a few years of weight lifting they reach 160-170 pounds of pure muscle. Too bad, gym is still a luxury in Vietnam otherwise there will be more buff viet guys walking around. Where I work there is this muscular white guy and he can bench press 325 pounds. I don't care how skilled your martial arts is, you won't beat a guy who can bench 325 pounds

I benched press 315 lbs x 1 rep but I'm skinny. I'm 150 lbs. Technically I'm pretty lean for my weight. But I wouldn't say being super muscular is good if the guy isn't witty and fast. Cung Le was a good fighter. I know a lot of Vietnamese guys at the gym who are stronger than most white guys.
 
A picture with symbolism. Vietnam army general staff is briefed on Chinese military installations on Hainan island, especially the recent development around the base of Chinese nuclear submarines.

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the Russians are not only smart but also good businesspeople. I read they are offering Vietnam club-k container stored antiship missiles for Vietnam made 770 ton, roro 5612 class multi-purpose container vessel.

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Thank you.

Vietnamese community in Canada is very strong. In Canada, we have a Vietnamese Senator. He always carry the South Vietnamese Yellow-3 red stripes flag.

Very true.
are you of Vietnamese descent?

Canada is pretty much alike the United States and Australia. all three have something in common for our Viet kieu to thrive: big landmass, sizeable Vietnamese population, little corruption, law and order, last but not least a climate of laissez-faire. there are sizeable Vietnamese population in Europe too, but things are much complicated here, not to mention racism and resentment of domestic population.
 
I benched press 315 lbs x 1 rep but I'm skinny. I'm 150 lbs. Technically I'm pretty lean for my weight. But I wouldn't say being super muscular is good if the guy isn't witty and fast. Cung Le was a good fighter. I know a lot of Vietnamese guys at the gym who are stronger than most white guys.
When I was active duty, once in a while, I used to workout with a flight surgeon. He specialized in sports medicines and also applied to become a pilot. In military aviation, an MD/pilot is uncommon. Does happens, but rare. Being an MD and caring for the pilots and aircrew are busy enough, but to be a rated pilot as well takes an exceptional person.

Anyway...According to his thesis, if you can press/squat your own weight, even if just one rep, the odds of you having any kind of musculoskeletal system problems dramatically decreases doing ordinary things in your life. Things like pick up the grocery, carry the baby, change a flat tire, mow the lawn, etc. We are not talking about construction work, being in the infantry, working the ship docks, etc.

If you can press/squat your body weight plus 10%, here is where you should be concerned with overall body condition such as shape, muscle development, fat index, nutrition, etc. Plus 10% is where martial art techniques begins to yield and increase their destructive potential. Plus 20% is where you begins to enter competitive conditioning, if you wanted to go there. Manny Pacquiao supposedly can press 315 lbs once, but supposedly he also found out that such strength did not add any more power to his punches, so he dropped as much as 100 lbs in regular weight training, and let his speed do the damages.

So unless a martial artist intends to enter professional competition, plus 10-15% is more than adequate of strength conditioning to be healthy in one's musculoskeletal system. If you have high body fat content, smoke, or drink to excess, those are different issues. Being able to press/squat your weight -- plus some -- is just about that musculoskeletal system.

Since then, I have taken his advice and for the past twenty-something yrs, all the things I have done, motorcycles, amateur SCCA racing, scuba, skydived, and am a 2nd deg TKD, I have only sprains and a couple cracked ribs. I can still do a full split, although at 54 yrs old, I will need warm up time. When Pops died, what I learned from the doctors is that most seniors who died from broken hip accidents, they did not felled and broke their hips. Rather, it is the opposite. Their hip joints failed, then they felled. The trauma is so great that many of these old bodies cannot recover and the old person entered the hospital, and he/she died there.

There is no way to foretell how your own musculoskeletal system will perform as you ages, but strength training, even if just using your body weight, seems to delay the aging effects considerably.
 
With the brigade commanding Vietnam’s most advanced warships

TUOI TRE NEWS

UPDATED : 01/29/2017 14:02 GMT + 7

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Brigade No.162, under the supervision of Naval Region 4, is the Vietnam People's Navy’s biggest water-surface combat unit, with multiple state-of-the-art warships in its fleet.

The young soldiers of Brigade 162 are charged with the command of a squadron of advanced warships, including two Gepard-class 3.9 frigates, the first of their kind in Vietnam; the missile escort vessels Dinh Tien Hoang and Ly Thai To; Molniya-class fast-attack missile ships; and the Vietnamese-built TT-400TP gunboats.

The two missile escort vessels are named after two former Vietnamese kings.

Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper revisited the brigade for a special Tet report, four years after reporting on the newly-received Dinh Tien Hoang missile escort vessel in August 2012.

Young commanders on modern warships

At Brigade 162’s headquarters, Tuoi Tre spoke with Major Pham Anh Tuan, captain of the Ly Thai To missile escort vessel, while several anti-submarine helicopter Ka-28s hovered above his ship.

Tuan explained that the choppers, under the command of Anti-submarine Unit 954, were engaged in a drill with his missile escort ship, while the brigade’s other modern warships including the Dinh Tien Hoang, the fast-attack missile ships, and the gunboats, were also training offshore.

In August 2012, Anh was wearing the Lieutenant badge and was the vice-captain of the Dinh Tien Hoang warship. After four years, he was promoted to Major and assigned to work on the Ly Thai To.

“Over the last four years, our force has been significantly ‘rejuvenated,’ with more and more young soldiers,” Tuan told Tuoi Tre.

“More than 50 percent of our troops were born in the 1980s and 1990s, and their mastery of the weapons and equipment has made them way more confident than when we first received these modern warships."

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Pham Anh Tuan (L, 3rd) during a break with his comrades

Born in 1979, Tuan himself has yet to reach his 40s, quite young for a warship captain.

“The biggest pressure is keeping everything in military order and staying prepared for combat at all times,” he said.

“This may sound easy, but it is a tough task to get work done.”

Tuan explained that compared to other ships, missile escort vessels are more modern, carry more weapons, and transport more crew.

“To date, we are confident that everything is in place and 100 percent of our crew members are ready to accept and complete any mission,” he underlined.

Ly Thai To is one of Brigade 162’s best two ships, having earned recognition in various Vietnam People’s Navy training competitions, including in August 2016 when the vessel won the top prize in the combat ship category.

Looking back on nearly five years of hard work since the modern Ly Thai To ship was delivered to Vietnam from Russia, Tuan said he had never believed that he and his comrades would do so well.

“In the beginning, problems were inevitable. We just were not familiar with modern ships,” Tuan said. “Since then, our young soldiers have mastered how to use the ships and their equipment.”

The 32-year-old leader

The brigade’s interesting stories are not limited to the missile escort vessels.

Brigade 162 is Vietnam’s first naval force to receive the Russian-built Molniya-class fast-attack craft.

In June 2014, Vietnam introduced the first homemade Molniya-class warships, presenting them to Brigade 162’s artillery-missile ship.

Thanks to their experience, it was Brigade 162 soldiers who were chosen to train their fellow Brigade 167 members on how to use the homemade warships.

“We started to train the first two batches of Brigade 167 soldiers, including the captain and other officers, on how to use the equipment and weapons on the fast-attack ships in 2012, two years before they officially received the home-built vessels from the Ba Son Shipyard,” recalled Captain Vu Trong Tan.

Tan, 32, is captain of the brigade’s missile-armed fast-attack ship 375, one of the most powerful warships in the Vietnamese navy.

The young captain has led the ship through several training scenarios and drills, with 100 percent of his crew achieving good and excellent grades in each exercise.

Captain Tan was also tasked with conducting an inspection on the acceptance of all weapons armed on the Ba Son-built ships before they were transferred to Brigade 167.

His efforts and ability have won acclamation from Russian experts and the High Command of the Vietnam People's Navy.

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Vu Trong Tan (R) and Vu Khanh Hai

With such an outstanding captain at the helm, it comes as no surprise that “Ship 375, together with the Ly Thai To, is among the most outstanding vessels in Brigade 162,” confirmed Captain Tong Xuan Quan, the brigade’s commissar.

Ship 375 is also the only vessel under the command of Naval Region 4 to be awarded the third-grade medal for national protection and the “Best Training Unit” title among the Brigade 162 for five years straight. None of these are easily achieved acclaim.

Tan was only 30 when he was transferred to Ship 375 before his promotion to vice-captain in 2014.

“After being transferred to the ship, I would awake every day to the passion and devotion with which my superiors handled their duties. It was a great example for younger comrades like me,” Tan recalled.

“We were inspired by these officials and it caused us to fall in love with our jobs.”

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‘Modern’ personnel

Brigade 162 is currently the most advanced and biggest water-surface warship brigade under the Vietnamese navy.

However, according to the brigade’s commissar Tong Xuan Quan, “having ‘modern’ personnel is more important than modern weapons.”

The ‘modern personnel,’ by his definition, are servicemen with “good health and knowledge, great professional skills, and foreign language fluency.”

While soldiers in the brigade are constantly on a tight schedule, including training, practicing, and research, self-study is one of the group’s biggest focuses.

“Because the ship itself and its equipment are all modern, officers and soldiers have to keep studying each particular aspect of the ship,” Captain Vu Khanh Hai, 33, said.

Hai said high-ranking officers from the brigade frequently run unexpected checks on soldiers to ensure they are staying constantly vigilant.

“There are days when we are checked twice,” he said.

“You will be asked one random point from a thick set of documents, and you have to give a clear, thorough, immediate answer.”

While a score of 7/10 is normally considered ‘good,' in the army it just means ‘average’ and “you will not be allowed to work with those weapons,” Hai explained.

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The captain added that he and his comrades have spent entire days working to expand their knowledge of the ship’s equipment.

The Brigade 167 is poised to receive a new Gepard-class 3.9 frigate, and Hai has already been tapped to serve as its vice-captain upon delivery.

Hai is also known for his creative ideas to help soldiers better control the modern warships. In 2014 and 2015, the captain also led his ship and crew members to achieve ‘excellent grades’ in various live-fire exercises.

Vu Khanh Hai was selected as a standout young member of the Vietnamese navy in 2015.

“I always bear in mind the words of my senior officer, commissar Tong Xuan Quan – modern weapons and vessels are not as important as ‘modern’ personnel,” Hai said.

Hai added he acknowledges the important duty of managing multimillion-dollar warships, especially given Vietnam’s modest economic ability.

“Every soldier must try their hardest and perform their best to fulfill their role,” he said.

When I was active duty, once in a while, I used to workout with a flight surgeon. He specialized in sports medicines and also applied to become a pilot. In military aviation, an MD/pilot is uncommon. Does happens, but rare. Being an MD and caring for the pilots and aircrew are busy enough, but to be a rated pilot as well takes an exceptional person.

Anyway...According to his thesis, if you can press/squat your own weight, even if just one rep, the odds of you having any kind of musculoskeletal system problems dramatically decreases doing ordinary things in your life. Things like pick up the grocery, carry the baby, change a flat tire, mow the lawn, etc. We are not talking about construction work, being in the infantry, working the ship docks, etc.

If you can press/squat your body weight plus 10%, here is where you should be concerned with overall body condition such as shape, muscle development, fat index, nutrition, etc. Plus 10% is where martial art techniques begins to yield and increase their destructive potential. Plus 20% is where you begins to enter competitive conditioning, if you wanted to go there. Manny Pacquiao supposedly can press 315 lbs once, but supposedly he also found out that such strength did not add any more power to his punches, so he dropped as much as 100 lbs in regular weight training, and let his speed do the damages.

So unless a martial artist intends to enter professional competition, plus 10-15% is more than adequate of strength conditioning to be healthy in one's musculoskeletal system. If you have high body fat content, smoke, or drink to excess, those are different issues. Being able to press/squat your weight -- plus some -- is just about that musculoskeletal system.

Since then, I have taken his advice and for the past twenty-something yrs, all the things I have done, motorcycles, amateur SCCA racing, scuba, skydived, and am a 2nd deg TKD, I have only sprains and a couple cracked ribs. I can still do a full split, although at 54 yrs old, I will need warm up time. When Pops died, what I learned from the doctors is that most seniors who died from broken hip accidents, they did not felled and broke their hips. Rather, it is the opposite. Their hip joints failed, then they felled. The trauma is so great that many of these old bodies cannot recover and the old person entered the hospital, and he/she died there.

There is no way to foretell how your own musculoskeletal system will perform as you ages, but strength training, even if just using your body weight, seems to delay the aging effects considerably.

Long time no see man. Happy New Year!!!
 
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Korean troops' killings in Vietnam still unresolved
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Nguyet Thi Thanh, one of the survivors of a Vietnam War massacre committed by South Korean soldiers, speaks at a weekly demonstration by former comfort women in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, during her first visit to Korea last April. / Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul

'Peace is possible when putting myself in the shoes of an assailant'

By Choi Ha-young

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2017/01/120_222942.html

Koreans usually see themselves from the point of view of the victims, for example, of wartime sex slavery under Japanese imperialism. So, more than 40 years after the Vietnam War ended, it is difficult to find any feelings of guilt here over Korea's role in that war, even if the nation sent over 300,000 soldiers to Vietnam. There, 16,000 of them died and some still suffer long-term effects from exposure to defoliants.

According to a Vietnamese military report published in the 1980s, South Korean soldiers killed about 5,000 Vietnamese civilians. Some researchers speculate the number could be as high as 9,000.

In September 1964, South Korean soldiers landed in civil war-ravaged Vietnam to support U.S. attacks on communist forces. Then President Park Chung-hee, President Park Geun-hye's father, signed a deal with the U.S. to get long-term loans for economic growth. The troops were dedicated to building humanitarian facilities and providing necessities, but also were involved in battles.

From Dec. 3 to 6, 1966, the 2nd Marine Division of Korea killed about 430 civilians in Binh Hoa, in Vietnam's south. Reportedly, more than half the victims were women and seven were pregnant. Among them were 166 children.

"The sin, enough to reach the sky, will be remembered eternally," a monument erected in the village reads. Across Vietnam, around 80 monuments recall the wartime crime committed by Koreans.

Scholars and journalists investigated the tragedy, and it came to light in 1999 through media reports. But Seoul has never apologized officially.

Former President Kim Dae-jung expressed regret in 1998 during a visit to Hanoi, but no progress has been made since. Only civic groups have continued medical volunteer activities in Vietnam to offer an apology and some activists built a museum to inform the Korean public about the issue.

However, the Korean government recently set back the clock. One of President Park's flagship policies, state-authored textbooks, justified the nation's participation in the war, omitting descriptions of the anti-war movement of the time. And most textbooks don't mention the massacres.

Instead, Korean students would learn of the war's economic benefits. So, many Koreans are unaware that the country' soldiers were "assailants."

Vietnam's change of view

Originally, Vietnam demonstrated the rule of "shutting out past affairs and opening to the future." But Ku Su-jeong ― a master's degree and Ph.D. holder from the Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City ― says the phrase doesn't mean the Vietnamese will cover up the memories forever.

"Rather, the Vietnamese government has investigated the atrocities, published booklets and designated the massacre sites as historical remains and organized events to commemorate," said Ku, who exposed the massacres in Korea for the first time as a correspondent of a local media outlet, Hankyoreh.

In December, a documentary titled "The Last Lullaby," which dealt with the Binh Hoa massacre, won an honorable mention from Vietnamese state-run broadcaster VTV.

"Above all, it is shameful not to recognize wrongdoings citing that victims don't demand an apology," the longtime observer told The Korea Times by email.
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A local resident looks at a monument inscribed with 74 victims' names, which was erected in a village in Hoi An.
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Chain of brutality


Interestingly, she pointed out that looking back on the tragedy will help Korea reflect on its own unresolved historical issues. "There are considerable connections between the massacres that occurred around the Korean War, those during the Vietnam War and those during the May 18 Democratization Movement in Gwangju in 1980," Ku said.

In 1948, two years before the Korean War, government forces killed Jeju residents who protested the nation's division. In 1980, a military government ordered the shootings of civilians in Gwangju, which also involved torture and sexual assaults.

Chae Myung-shin, then commanding officer of the Republic of Korea forces in Vietnam, is the thread that connects the consecutive atrocities, Ku said. "Chae's first post was Jeju Island in 1948 and he conducted sweep-up operations against suspected communists," she said.

"The achievements during the Vietnam War gave a chance for advancement to the soldiers, who formed a strong bond. This is the beginning of Hanahoe which means Group of One the unofficial private group in the military."

Two leading members of Hanahoe ― former presidents Chun Doo-hwan and his right-hand man Roh Tae-woo ― approved atrocities against the Gwangju Democratization Movement to strengthen their grip on power.

There were similarities in the murders across the massacres: cutting off females' breasts after rape, killing children and senior citizens and incinerating all after the brutalities.

"Korea has a long history of ideological conflicts," Ku said. "The experiences on Jeju and massacres during the Korean War would be a background of the orchestrated atrocities under stern anti-communism education."

Additionally, she said the soldiers' panic, caused by an unfamiliar environment and the language barrier, would be a further reason for the cruelty.

How to apologize

Ku calls for an unlimited apology to Vietnamese victims first and also recognition of what happened, fact finding, an official apology, legal compensation, punishment of offenders, documentation in textbooks and the erection of memorials.

"This is what Korean civil society has urged of Japan," she said. "If Korea treads in Japan's steps like the so-called Reconciliation and Healing Foundation, this would be a secondary victimization. Above all, the most important thing is a sincere apology and self-reflection."

Recently, Ku led a group trip to the massacre sites in Vietnam, on the 50th anniversary of the Binh Hoa massacre. The participants paid their respects at the memorial and met the survivors. Among the participants were 30 conscientious objectors, who have rejected mandatory military service because of their belief in peace.

The phrase "Peace is possible when putting myself in the shoes of an assailant" has inspired Ku and her longtime movement to build peace between Vietnam and Korea. Now she is preparing the establishment of the Korean-Vietnamese Peace Foundation, based in Seoul, to push for a public awareness campaign on the issue. Along with the preparation, she has to deal with a lawsuit filed by 831 Korean veterans who deny all allegations about all massacres.
 
No, you have one party. Other countries got 2 to 4 different parties.



Incorrect.



You never live in the USA.



Thank you.



look up infowars



I'm new hear and already sense the amount of ignorance in the air.



Vietnamese community in Canada is very strong. In Canada, we have a Vietnamese Senator. He always carry the South Vietnamese Yellow-3 red stripes flag.



Very true.

infowars? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA so you get your news from a crackpot and you come on here all cocky and arrogant like you're the keeper of forbidden knowledge? GTFO.
 
why should the Koreans say sorry to Vietnam if they can use past war crimes of the Japanese against Korea as propaganda tool? a political stick, pressing Japan today for money and other incentives, in that context, they are very similar to the Chinese, who use Japanese past war crimes not only propaganda tool against Japan but as excuse for everything they do in East and South China sea. anyway, a Japanese newspaper recently reveals leaked China´s top 5 enemy list:

1- the United States
2- North Korea
3- Japan
4- Vietnam
5- India

North Korea is the surprise, while the other 4 are not. can´t tell if true or not. or probably just a Japanese trick but I won´t wonder the Chinese drunken by a combination of nationalism, hatred, megalomania and a feeling "the time has come" one day will start the war by launching a pre-emptive strike on Hawaii.
 
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