N. Korea Asks Japan’s Apology for Sex Slaves
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TOKYO — North Korea demanded Thursday that Japan apologize and pay compensation for forcing Korean women to serve as prostitutes for its wartime army.
Historians estimate that the Japanese Imperial Army forced as many as 200,000 women, most of them Korean, to work in military brothels in countries it overran in the 1930s and 1940s.
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