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SEOUL. — South Korean President Park Geun-hye urged Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to make a decision on the issue of Japan’s sex slavery of Korean women during World War II, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said yesterday.
Park called on Abe to decide on the issue to cure the pains of history as agreed upon between the two leaders during their first one-on-one meeting in Seoul on November 2 to speed up talks on the comfort women, or the Korean women forced to serve in the Imperial Japan’s military brothels during World War II.
Park and Abe sat down face-to-face for their first summit on the sidelines of the trilateral leadership meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang that was held in Seoul in early November.
Park said that Japan is an important neighbor with which South Korea should cooperate. – Xinhua.
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