SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s president, marking the 99th anniversary of the launch of an independence movement from Japanese colonization, criticized Japan’s insistence that the issue of women forced to provide sex for Japanese troops in World War II has been settled.
“The Japanese government, the perpetrator, should not say the matter is closed,” President Moon Jae-in said Thursday in a speech at a prison used by Japan to hold freedom fighters during the colonial era. “The issue of a crime against humanity committed in time of war cannot be closed with just a word. A genuine resolution of unfortunate history is to remember it and learn a lesson from it.”
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