S. Korea to launch team to review sex slavery deal with Japan
The foreign ministry plans to launch a special team to look into the controversial agreement signed with Japan on its wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, a ministry official said Friday.
The move is in line with President Moon Jae-in's campaign pledge to review the agreement signed in December 2015 to end bilateral feuds over the imperial Japanese army's forced mobilization of Korean women at front-line military brothels during World War II.
Under the deal designed to end the feud "irreversibly," Japan provided 1 billion yen ($9 million) to support South Korean victims, known as "comfort women."
But Moon said the South Korean public doesn't approve of the deal signed under the government of impeached former President Park Geun-hye.
"We plan to launch a task force inside the foreign ministry in relation with the comfort women agreement very soon," the high-ranking ministry official said. "The team will look into the deal in a comprehensive manner."
The key focus of the task force is likely to be whether the process of gathering input from the victims was duly taken before the deal's signing, a point Moon has often mentioned.
It is also expected to look into how the agreement got to include the controversial expression that the deal will "resolve (the feud) definitively and irreversibly," as well as a wording about a statue in Seoul symbolizing comfort women victims.
Procedures leading up to the signing would also be subject to the examination.
The result of its examination may define the Moon administration's future stance on the comfort women agreement as the administration remains undecided over whether it should finally be revoked or respected.
Since the inauguration of Moon, the foreign ministry has said, "Both South Korea and Japan should make efforts to settle the deal in recognition of the reality that the majority of South Korean people and the victims don't approve of the deal." (Yonhap)
(责任编辑:行业动态)
- 广东超一半的北运淡水鱼来自这里!全链发力打响“南海鱼”金字招牌
- Belgian envoy’s wife to avoid punishment for alleged assaults
- Mac Pro with 1.5TB of RAM tackles Google Chrome and its insatiable lust for memory
- [Newsmaker] Seoul prosecution chief indicted over power abuse allegations
- The OLED Burn
- Tesla Robotaxis aren't coming in August, it seems
- Blinken indicates changing course in North Korea policy
- This might be the most impressively complicated handshake you'll ever see
- That 'Bojack Horseman' Season 6 whiteboard scene, explained
- 'Terminator Zero' creators find fresh life in sci
- Talib ecstatic after enormous support in record Olympic lift
- Cory Booker explains why a law is needed to protect Robert Mueller.
- Stephon Clark rallies: Hundreds take to the streets in Sacramento to demand justice.
-
[Exclusive] Samsung unsure of Suga's future as brand ambassador: source
Suga of BTS (right) holds the first Galaxy Fold 5 with Roh Tae-moon, president of Samsung Electronic ...[详细] -
Washington state’s sweeping voting rights reforms should be a model for the entire country.
The last two decades have been pretty bleak for voting rights advocates. President George W. Bush re ...[详细] -
Why Mohammed bin Salman loves Donald Trump: an interview with Dexter Filkins.
In a big new feature story in the New Yorker, Dexter Filkins looks at the swift, disorienting, and b ...[详细] -
雨城区工商质监局等部门开展以会销形式销售保健食品专项检查有关部门工作人员开展节前市场专项检查2017年12月12日,我市与全省同步启动了“红盾春雷2018”行动。如今,行动接近尾声,我市根据实际确定的 ...[详细]
-
Moeko Fujii ,July 18, 2024 The Eyes of Lac ...[详细]
-
Trump administration to impose new sanctions on group of Russian oligarchs.
The Trump administration is set to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia this week, specifi ...[详细] -
Concerns arising over Biden's national security team
By Kang Seung-wooAs President-elect Joe Biden puts together his national security team, diplomatic e ...[详细] -
Trump impeachment chances: No chief of staff or communications director edition.
The Impeach-O-Meter is a wildly subjective and speculative daily estimate of the likelihood that Do ...[详细] -
The Atlas is home to all things peculiar and bizarre. While sometimes it seems like we’ve seen ...[详细]
-
Watch this very good dog invade a pro soccer match
Everybody loves a good sports dog. The world was particularly blessed on Sunday when a very good dog ...[详细]
- Apple Watch bands: 5 favorites to consider as Apple Watch 10 looms
- Mueller team reportedly questioned Russian oligarchs arriving in US about Trump financial links.
- Mueller team reportedly questioned Russian oligarchs arriving in US about Trump financial links.
- Trump tweets after Cohen FBI raid to complain about attorney
- When Are Next
- 油润晶亮,广东丝苗米让四川市民直呼“喷喷香”!
- Student survivors of Parkland shooting react to YouTube shooting.