South Korea warns Japan over 'comfort women' accord after claims of no proof
Source: Guardian
Claim from minister in Tokyo that there is no evidence government coerced women into wartime brothels provokes anger in Seoul
South Korea has warned Japan not to undermine a recent agreement on second world war sex slaves, after Tokyo’s deputy foreign minister told the UN there was no documented proof that Japan had coerced women into working in military brothels.
The two countries agreed in December to “finally and irreversibly” settle their long-running dispute over Japan’s use of as many as 200,000 women – most of them from the Korean peninsula – to provide sexual services to troops before and during the war.
Under the agreement, the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, issued a verbal apology to the “comfort women”. “(Abe) expresses anew his most sincere apologies and remorse to all the women who underwent immeasurable and painful experiences and suffered incurable physical and psychological wounds as comfort women,” Japan’s foreign minister, Fumio Kishida, told his South Korean counterpart, Yun Byung-se, in Seoul.
Japan also agreed to contribute 1 billion yen (£6.1m) to a fund that will be used to support the 46 surviving women, most of whom are in their 80s and 90s.
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