○ 질문출처 : 리딩스펙트럼 30번

질문은 김정호 선생님 강의 및 교재만 가능합니다! (공무원/편입은 기출문제까지 가능)

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○ 질문내용 : A prime example is a july 1945 press conference held by Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki, when japan was ready to surrender to Allied firces. However, he had decided to delay formally announcing it until Allied forces had been notified through official channels. He wanted to buy time to negotiate the terms of surrender. However, the prime minister made a mistake at the press conference. To the postdam Declaration that demanded unconditional surrender, he responded ambiguously, "The cabinet holds that it will ignore[mokusachu] the declaration." He meant to say that he would for now defer from responding. However, the word mokusachu can be interpreted as either to "ignore" or "refrain from commenting." Japanese media and the Tokyo English Broadcast interpreted it as the former ㅡ that the cabinet would reject the Postdam Declaration.