Resources and Links
Welcome to the Resources and Links page at MothersSwam.com.
Here is a list of sites and articles concerned with the history and themes of Mothers Swam. Please feel free to suggest any helpful links for the page.
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Comfort Women
Korean Comfort Women Testimonies (uploaded to source site, April 2013) https://www.koreaverband.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/biographies_KoreanComfortWomen_english.pdf
Life as a “comfort woman”: Survivors remember a WWII atrocity that was ignored for decades. (29th Dec 2015) https://www.vox.com/2015/12/29/10682830/comfort-women-japan-survivors
South Korean Parliament passes bill for day to commemorate sexual slavery victims – Yonhap News (27th Sep 2017) http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/search1/2603000000.html?cid=AEN20170927005100315
Comfort women controversy – Historical facts disputed and argued by Japanese Professor, Nishioka Tsutomu; ‘How Lies Became Truth’ (2007) http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/39_S4.pdf
Why is the plight of ‘comfort women’ still so controversial? – New York Times (14th Aug 2017) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/opinion/comfort-women-japan-south-korea.html
The 2015 agreement between Korea and Japan on ‘Comfort Women’ again under discussion (26th Dec 2017) https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/26/national/politics-diplomacy/south-korea-lacked-communication-comfort-women-deal-japan-foreign-minister-says/#.WmFm9XtuKP8
The Brutal History of Japan’s Comfort Women (20th Feb 2018) https://www.history.com/news/comfort-women-japan-military-brothels-korea
South Korean and Japanese leaders clash over comfort women at U.N. (27th Sep 2018) https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/09/27/south-korean-and-japanese-leaders-clash-over-comfort-women-at-u-n/
South Koreans take to the streets to pay respects to ‘comfort women’ activist Kim Bok-dong (2nd Feb, 2019) https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/02/asia/south-korea-comfort-woman-funeral-intl/index.html
Inconsistencies in the Korean Comfort Women narrative (7th March 2019) https://www.e-ir.info/2019/03/07/inconsistencies-in-the-korean-comfort-women-narrative/
Korea – Japanese Occupation
‘The Battleship Island’ – Korean Survivors Story – Yonhap News (27th Jul 2017) http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2017/07/27/0302000000AEN20170727005900315.html
Japan downgrades South Korea (28th Aug 2019) https://www.businessinsider.com/japan-south-korea-official-downgrade-preferred-trading-partner-hostile-nation-2019-8
The Japanese Rising Sun flag at the Olympics (11th Sep 2019) https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/south-korea-wants-japans-rising-sun-flag-banned-tokyo-olympics
South Korea trade war with Japan (18th Sep 2019) https://www.businessinsider.com/south-korea-japan-trade-war-escalates-japan-downgraded-as-partner-2019-9
World War II and Korean War
Information about the Chindits http://www.chindits.info
Site about the Chindit Operation Longcloth https://www.chinditslongcloth1943.com
The Burma Star Association https://www.burmastar.org.uk
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders’ Museum https://www.argylls.co.uk
Detailed accounts of The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders’ campaigns http://argylls1945to1971.co.uk
South Korea – North Korea
North and South Korea Share Historic Handshake at Olympics (9th Feb 2018) http://time.com/5141298/winter-olympics-opening-ceremony-north-south-korea/
First Lady of North Korea, Ri Sol Ju (16th Apr 2018) http://www.newsweek.com/first-lady-north-korea-ri-sol-ju-kim-jong-un-886623
Kim Jong-un and President Moon Jae-in cross border between North and South Korea (27th Apr 2018) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/27/kim-jong-un-becomes-first-north-korean-leader-cross-south-65/
North Korea’s Kim Jong-un executes envoy for Hanoi summit with Trump amid purge of officials (31st May 2019) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/30/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-executes-envoy-hanoi-summit-trump-amid/