South Korea Hints That Comfort Women Deal Struck With Japan Might Be Cancelled

VOA: S. Korea Says 2015 Deal with Japan Over 'Comfort Women' Faulty

A 2015 deal reached between South Korea and Japan to resolve the issue of Korean women forced into sexual slavery by Japanese colonial forces was insufficient, a special South Korean task force announced Wednesday.

The deal was reached between Seoul and Tokyo under the administration of ousted President Park Geun-hye. Japan agreed to apologize for the actions of its troops during its brutal rule of the Korean peninsula between 1910 and 1945, and to pay $8 million into a fund established to support the victims.

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WNU Editor: The Japanese are responding .... Japan says ties at risk if South Korea messes with 2015 'comfort women' deal (Reuters). More here .... Japan Lashes Out as South Korea Reviews Landmark Sex-Slave Deal (Bloomberg)

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