SEOUL, 27 Feb. (Yonhap) — South Korea’s National Assembly on Monday passed a resolution urging Japan to withdraw its application to list a former gold mine linked to wartime forced labor on the World Heritage List. . ‘UNESCO.
Last month, the Japanese government again submitted a letter of recommendation to the UN body for the listing of the mine on Sado Island, after the initial version, delivered in February this year last, turned out to be incomplete.
Many Koreans were forced into forced labor in the mine during World War II, when Korea was under the brutal colonization of Japan.
The resolution expressed “deep regret” over the Japanese decision and urged Tokyo to keep its promise to recognize and provide information on Korean victims of forced labor when registering its modern industrial facilities as a site. of world heritage.
UNESCO recommended such measures when it listed Japan’s Hashima Island, also known as Battleship Island, along with other Meiji-era sites as a World Heritage Site in 2015.
This file photo taken on January 3, 2022 shows the former gold mine on Sado Island off Niigata, northwest of Tokyo. South Korea has called on Japan to withdraw its efforts to inscribe the wartime forced labor mine on the UNESCO World Heritage List. (Yonhap)
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