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Japan says ties at risk if S Korea tries to revise 2015 'comfort women' deal

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Japan said on Wednesday any attempt by South Korea to revise a 2015 deal meant to have resolved a row over «comfort women» forced to work in Japan’s wartime brothels would make relations «unmanageable» after Seoul said the agreement had failed. The two U. S. allies, which share a
Japan said on Wednesday any attempt by South Korea to revise a 2015 deal meant to have resolved a row over «comfort women» forced to work in Japan’s wartime brothels would make relations «unmanageable» after Seoul said the agreement had failed.
The two U. S. allies, which share a bitter history including Japanese colonisation, are key to international efforts to rein in North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes that it pursues in defiance of U. N. Security Council resolutions.
South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha apologised for the controversial deal on Wednesday, as a panel investigating the negotiations leading up to the agreement unveiled its results.
The investigation concluded that the dispute over the comfort women, a Japanese euphemism for the thousands of girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in wartime brothels, could not be «fundamentally resolved» because the victims’ demand for legal compensation had not been met.
South Korea wants Japan to take legal responsibility and provide due compensation.
Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono said the 2015 settlement, which includes a 1 billion yen ($8.8 million) fund to help the victims, resulted from «legitimate negotiations», warning any amendment may complicate relations.
«If South Korea tries to revise the agreement that is already being implemented, that would make Japan’s ties with South Korea unmanageable and it would be unacceptable,» Kono said in a statement.

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