Mourners honor one of last S. Korean WWII ‘comfort women’ 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseKim Bok-dong, who became a figurehead for the suffering endured by South Korean “comfort women” sexually enslaved by occupying Japanese forces in the Second World War, will be laid to rest on Friday. Instead, she found herself on the battlefield in a brothel where soldiers had sex with her from morning until evening, every day for years — one of tens of thousands of girls used as so-called comfort women by the Japanese military. Japan occupied the Korean peninsula from 1910 until its defeat at the end of World War II in 1945. In 2007, Abe triggered a region-wide uproar when he said there was no evidence that Japan directly forced women to work as sex slaves.

Source: Manila Bulletin February 01, 2019 07:07 UTC