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Textbook outrages Koreans
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SOUTH KOREA yesterday warned that it will use "every possible means" to force Japan to rewrite school textbooks accused of glossing over Japan's wartime atrocities.
"Every possible means remains open to be used as a card," said a senior foreign ministry official after a government task force held a first meeting on the worsening row with Japan.
"Unless Japan accepts our demand to rewrite the textbooks, we will doggedly and sternly cope with the matter," the official said.
The official gave no details of action being planned. But Yonhap news agency said the government was considering opposing a Japanese bid to get a permanent seat at the UN Security Council.
The task force met a day after President Kim Dae-jung demanded Japan carry out a new review of the history books, which have sparked protests in Seoul and calls for a boycott of Japanese goods.
The South Korean National Assembly, or parliament, has decided to send a delegation consisting of legislators from all political parties to Tokyo yesterday to convey the letter to the Japanese parliament, expressing South Korean indignation over the Japanese textbooks' distortion of historical facts.
South Korean President Kim Dae-jung on Wednesday voiced his expectation that the issue of Japan's recent approval of history-distorting textbooks could be resolved through new revisions.
Kim made the remarks when he met a Japanese delegation of the South Korea-Japan Economic Association.
It is the first time that Kim made public his thinking over the textbook issue since the Japanese Government approved eight middle school textbooks beautifying Japan's wartime atrocities.(SD-Agencies)
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