President Moon Jae-in will hold a series of one-on-one summits with the leaders of 10 Southeast Asian countries gathering in Korea later this month for a special summit Busan is hosting for Asean, the Blue House said Sunday.Moon has invited them to the two-day Asean-Korea Commemorative Summit to open Nov. 25 in the southern port city of Busan. It will be the biggest diplomatic event to take place in South Korea under the Moon administration.Moon is scheduled to kick off the days-long summit diplomacy on Asean with bilateral talks with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Seoul on Saturday. Lee is making an official visit to South Korea.Next Sunday, Moon plans to meet with Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah in the capital, who is to pay a state visit.He will also greet Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Nov. 27 and Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Bin Mohamad the following day, both of whom are due in Seoul for official visits.Moon plans to meet bilaterally with … [Read more...] about Moon prepares for Asean summits in Busan
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I wrote the apology that I wanted to hear from my father, says Eve Ensler
Your father died 31 years ago, and this book is the apology he never deigned to make. Did you find catharsis/closure in his imagined confession? Were you expiating some of his guilt? Is there also an element of payback? Your bare-knuckled account has dragged diabolical Shadow Man into the harsh, unshuttered light of day. For so many years I had been waiting for my father to apologise to me, acknowledge, own, take responsibility for sexually abusing and then physically battering and violating me as a child. To say it happened. It was real and he knew it was wrong. I think that is true for many survivors, this yearning for an apology is an ongoing occupation. Making the decision to write my father’s apology to me, to say the words, to express the feelings I needed to hear was birthed in the desire to get free of this yearning. For this I knew he needed to write a detailed accounting of what he had done to me because liberation is in the details. Saying “I am sorry if you feel … [Read more...] about I wrote the apology that I wanted to hear from my father, says Eve Ensler
