5th day of hunger strike by South Korean opposition party leader... Opposition party mobilizes all forces to wage international public opinion campaign against Japan's treated water

South Korea's ``Democratic Party Together'' has highlighted the responsibility of the Yoon Seo-gyul (Yun Seok-yue) government over Japan's discharge of treated water into the ocean, led by representative Lee Jae-myung's hunger strike.
This has even led to an international battle of public opinion. On the 4th, the fifth day of the hunger strike, the representative held an ``International Joint Conference on Abolishing the Dumping of Water Treated at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant into the Ocean'' at the National Diet, where experts from the United States, China, and Japan met.
The government invited people from overseas to create public opinion against dumping treated water into the ocean. At the meeting, the representative said, ``As the largest party in the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, the Democratic Party of Korea is committed to protecting the lives and safety of the people, and protecting world peace and the environment.
``However, unfortunately, the government and ruling party of the Republic of Korea have effectively gone along with Japan's release of nuclear treated water.''
``Our people have held weekend rallies for two weeks to protest against the Japanese and South Korean governments,'' the representative said.
continuing the discussion. It would be appropriate for Japan to immediately stop dumping nuclear treated water into the ocean, and for the South Korean government to sue Japan at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea."
The party's Woo Won-sik, chairman of the Committee on Measures to Dispose of Treated Water from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in the Ocean, said, ``Together with the Democratic Party, the Yun Seok-Yeong government and the ruling party
We denounced the aiding of water dumping and set out to directly persuade the international community.''
"We will communicate our position and organize ourselves," he said. On the same day, the party sent a letter in its name to the 88 countries that have ratified the London Convention and Protocol, an agreement related to marine pollution.
sent. The letter points out that the release of treated water from Japan's nuclear power plants violates the London Agreement, which prohibits the release of radioactive materials into the ocean, and requests that this be confirmed at the general meeting of the parties in October.
The content of the request was included.