South Korea's largest opposition party leader: ”Sado Gold Mine Memorial Ceremony is the worst diplomatic disaster”... ”It should be a 'celebration' event, not a 'memorial' one”

Lee Jae-myung, leader of the South Korean opposition Democratic Party, said on the 25th, "Due to terrible diplomacy, the Sado Gold Mine Memorial Ceremony was held in a place that was not open to the victims of forced labor.
"Rather than a memorial, it has been reduced to a UNESCO Japan-registered celebration event."
At a meeting of the party's highest committee held in the National Assembly that morning, Lee said, "We have no choice but to talk about the Sado Gold Mine. It is the worst diplomatic disaster since the war."
"The forced mobilization of over 1,500 Koreans will be forgotten, and this will be recorded as the worst diplomatic history in which the Korean government justified Japan's colonial rule," Lee said.
We have tolerated Dokdo (Long Islands, Japanese name: Takeshima), we have tolerated history, we have tolerated comfort women, we have tolerated forced labor, and we have tolerated military cooperation.
"The tragedy at the Sado Gold Mine memorial ceremony is the result of a diplomatic attitude that is too low-key," he said. "The 60th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between Korea and Japan is right around the corner," he said, adding, "The Japanese government's repeated distortions of history are a real problem.
"If this situation continues, I think it will be difficult to have a future-oriented and normal Korea-Japan relationship," he said.