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South Korea's Dubious Comfort Women Ruling – The Diplomat


Why the court got it wrong on international law
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February 14, 2021
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A South Korean court made headlines in early January, when it ruled in a claim filed by former “comfort women” that Japan did not have state immunity in the case, and awarded damages to the plaintiffs. The comfort women worked in privately owned brothels servicing the Japanese military during World War II. Japan, invoking state immunity under international law, elected not to appeal the decision, and it was finalized on January 23.
In 1993, the Korean congress enacted a special law stipulating that the Korean comfort women were the victims of forced recruitment by the Japanese government, a charge that Japan denied. Since 1993, the Korean government has officially identified 240 former comfort women. Proponents of pro-North Korea national socialism in South Korea used the issue of comfort women as anti-Japan propaganda. ....

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