SEOUL, Dec 27 — South Korea’s Constitutional Court dismissed today an appeal by a group of women forced to work in Japan’s wartime military brothels to strike down an agreement signed by the two countries to settle claims over the abuse. The ruling is expected to have little impact on the...
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The ruling is expected to have little impact on the 2015 agreement as it has been effectively abandoned by South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who has called it seriously flawed and inadequate to resolve the issue that has been for many years a source of rancour between the neighbours. “It cannot be said that the rights of the victims of the Japanese military were infringed upon by this agreement,” Yoo said in the court’s ruling.
But surviving comfort women saw it as unjust and the constitutional petition was brought by 29 of them, and 12 of their families.
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