SK urges apology for wartime sex slaves
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South Korean President Park Geun-Hye yesterday repeated a call for Japanese leaders to apologize to former wartime sex slaves, warning that 鈥渢ime is running out鈥 for Japan.
Mainstream historians say up to 200,000 women, mainly from Korea but also from China, Indonesia and other Asian nations, were forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II.
The issue 鈥 a key sticking point in ties between the two neighbors 鈥 further strained relations in recent months amid an aggressive campaign in Japan to claim these 鈥渃omfort women鈥 were common prostitutes.
Park has urged Japanese leaders to offer an apology, and yesterday repeated the call for Tokyo to use 鈥渁ll means鈥 to resolve the issue as the number of survivors rapidly dwindles.
鈥淲e now have only 53 survivors, aged nearly 90 on average. Time is running out to restore their honor,鈥 Park said in a speech marking the anniversary of the country鈥檚 1919 uprising against the 1910-1945 Japanese colonial rule.
The victims have not been given redress for their treatment despite repeated efforts in the decades since the war.
Japan issued a landmark apology in 1993 鈥 known as the Kono Statement.
But a tranche of the political right, including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, still claim the wartime army brothels were staffed by professional prostitutes.
Tokyo also embarked on a global campaign to promote more sympathetic version of Japan鈥檚 wartime atrocities in school textbooks.
Such efforts to 鈥渄istort鈥 the history also hurt relations, Park said.
Ties have been icy for years since a long-running territorial row flared up.
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