Japanese Foreign Minister “I do not know the intention, so I will refrain from commenting”
Lee, video conference with Harvard students on the 17th
Lee Yong-soo, 93, a victim of comfort women in the Japanese military, insisted, “Let’s bring the comfort women issue to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and leave the judgment.”
On the morning of the 16th, the grandmother Lee held a press conference at the Korea Press Center in Jung-gu, Seoul, and said, “There is no other way anymore. President Moon Jae-in and the government appealed to the ICJ to receive a judgment from the ICJ to help Japan realize its faults.” “The Japanese military comfort women issue ICJ referral promotion committee,” represented by her grandmother, said, “I delivered my opinion to the Blue House through the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family before the Lunar New Year holidays.”
Lee said, “We are alleging that Japan has violated international law while ignoring the judgment of our court.” “I hope that the ICJ will receive fair judgment and get along with each other.” On the 8th of last month, the Seoul Central District Court ruled in favor of the plaintiff in a lawsuit for damages filed against the Japanese government by 12 victims of comfort women, but Japan presented a position that it was “unacceptable.” The grandmother also said, “I’m old and I don’t have time. In heaven, when (other) grandmothers say,’What have you been doing?’
On the 17th, at the request of Harvard University students, Lee also testifies about the victims of comfort women through video conference. At the meeting, he plans to condemn Harvard professor John Mark Ramsey, who claimed that “comfort women victims are prostitutes.” Foreign Ministry spokesman Choi Young-sam said at a regular briefing on the day that “the ICJ complaint will be carefully considered.” Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu (茂木敏充) said on the 16th, “I will refrain from commenting because I do not know what (Lee grandmother) intended to speak,” and “I will respond with all options in sight.” Reporter Choi Ji-sun / Tokyo = correspondent Park Hyeong-jun
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