In "Comfort Women: The North Korean Connection," Waseda U's Tetsuo Arima and Harvard Law's J Mark Ramseyer expose how Pyongyang is driving the historical lie.
They have been accused of being traitors, found guilty of defamation by courts, threatened online countless times and even assaulted in the street, but a group of South Korean activists and academics refuse to give in to the mainstream belief in their homeland on the issue of "comfort women". The group's position runs contrary to the UN Special Rapporteur's 1996.
The current Moon Jae-in government that came into office in 2017 had described it as "seriously flawed," after which bilateral ties sank to the lowest point in years.