President Lee Jae Myung said Thursday he had visited a historical park in Shanghai where Korean independence fighter Yun Bong-gil (1908-1932) carried out a bombing to protest against Japan's colonial rule. In a Facebook post, Lee said that he toured Lu Xun Park, formerly known as Hongkou Park, on the final day of his state visit to China, following his visit to the nearby historical site of the former headquarters of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. Yun detonated a bomb at the park during a Japanese celebration to mark the birthday of Emperor Hirohito and the occupation of large parts of Shanghai in 1932, killing or fatally wounding several senior Japanese officials. Lee described the site as the place where Yun "made a declaration of his country's sovereignty and the dignity of his people." "The bomb that a young man from a small and weak country threw was an outright challenge to the imperialist order of invasion and exploitation, expressing his firm belief that solidarity for peace is possible," he wrote. He evaluated the incident "completely changed the course of m