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‘Comfort women’ visit Foreign Minister

South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan, right, meets with former comfort women who were forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military during World War II at the foreign ministry in Seoul on Jan. 25.

Earlier, the South Korean government sent an official request to its Japanese counterpart to hold talks to settle the so-called comfort women issue. Tokyo didn’t accept the call. Hundreds of thousands of Asian women, including South Koreans, were forcibly drafted for sex slavery for Japanese soldiers during the war. Former comfort women have been demanding the Japanese government’s apology and compensation for decades, with no response yet.

(Yonhap News)

Posted on : Jan.26,2012 11:43 KST

Modified on : Jan.26,2012 14:09 KST

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