South Korea Tells Trump It"s Actually Never Been a Part of China

by Kanga Kong

2017년 4월 20일 18:25 JST

Trump reportedly said China’s Xi told him of history at summit

Korean ministry seeks verification as candidates weigh in

Candidates for South Korea’s May 9 presidential election weighed in on the issue

,which comes as the nation’s relations with China are already strained over moves to deploy a U.S. missile defense system on its soil.

Photographer: Kim Min-Hee-Pool/Getty Images

South Korea’s government wants to know whether Chinese President Xi Jinping gave alternative facts on the nation’s history to Donald Trump.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal last week, Trump said Xi told him during a recent summit that “Korea actually used to be a part of China.” The comments sparked outrage in Seoul and became an issue in South Korea’s presidential race, prompting the foreign ministry to seek to verify what Xi actually said.

“It’s a clear fact acknowledged by the international community that, for thousands of years in history, Korea has never been part of China,” foreign ministry spokesman Cho June-hyuck said at a briefing in Seoul on Thursday.

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Trump has sought to get China -- North Korea’s main ally and benefactor -- to do more to persuade dictator Kim Jong Un to stop conducting nuclear and missile tests. Xi’s explanation of the historical relationship made Trump realize that it’s “not so easy” for China to influence North Korea to give up its nuclear program, the newspaper quoted the U.S. president as saying.

Candidates for South Korea’s May 9 presidential election weighed in on the issue, which comes as the nation’s relations with China are already strained over moves to deploy a U.S. missile defense system on its soil.

“This is clearly a distortion of history and an invasion of the Republic of Korea’s sovereignty," conservative Liberty Korea Party candidate Hong Joon-pyo said through a spokesman.

A representative for Democratic Party of Korea candidate Moon Jae-in demanded to find out the full context of Xi’s comment. Ahn Cheol-soo’s People’s Party said that, if true, it would be regrettable for China to distort history in an international diplomacy setting.

Chinese dynasties invaded the Korean Peninsula repeatedly over the centuries and demanded tributes, but South Koreans reject the idea that their ancestors were ever ruled by their neighbor.

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-20/south-korea-tells-trump-it-s-actually-never-been-a-part-of-china

「중국의 일부였다」사실 없다-한국 정부가 트럼프 미 대통령의 오해 바로잡는다

Kanga Kong

2017년 4월 20일 22:20JST

중국의 습긴뻬이 국가 주석은 중·한양국의 역사에 대해 트럼프 미 대통령에 뭐라고 이야기했는가―.한국 정부는 이것을 알고 싶어하고 있다.

　　트럼프 대통령은 지난 주의 미국 신문 월가·저널(WSJ)과의 인터뷰로, 한반도가 「 이전에는 중국의 일부였다」라고 습주석으로부터 들었다고 말했다.한국 국민은 대분개해, 외무성이 습주석의 발언 내용을 확인하는 사태가 되었다.

　　한국 외무성의 보도관은 20 일소 울로 기자 회견해 「수천년의 역사 중(안)에서 한국이 중국의 일부였던 (일)것은 한번도 없다고 하는 것은 국제사회에서 인식되고 있는 명백한 사실이다」라고 언명 했다.

　　트럼프 대통령은 핵실험이나 미사일 시범사격을 그만두게 하도록(듯이) 중국이 북한을 억제하는 것을 바라고 있지만, 역사적 관계에 대한 습주석의 설명을 듣고, 북한의 정책에 영향을 미치는 것은 중국에 있어서도 「그만큼 간단하지 않다」것이 밝혀졌다고 WSJ지에 말하고 있었다.

https://www.bloomberg.co.jp/news/articles/2017-04-20/OOPCI56K50XU01