(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Song Eun-kyung = Japanese military comfort women victim Lee Yong-soo visited the National Human Rights Commission of Korea on the 26th and repeatedly emphasized that the comfort women issue should be referred to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Lee, who is in charge of the ICJ referral promotion committee on the comfort women issue, met with reporters before the interview with Choi Young-ae, chairman of the Human Rights Committee, and said, “To restore honor and human rights, I want to go to the International Court of Justice and reveal this. I came” he said.
He stressed that the referral to the ICJ was the last means of resolving the comfort women problem, saying, “I have tried the trial in the United States, have tried Japan, have done it in Korea, and have done everything now.”
This grandmother criticized, “When Japan was in the lawless world of colonies, Japan brought me with a knife and took it away while taking it away, dragging me as a young girl,” and criticized “Japan is still doing what it does when it was lawless.”
According to the officials attending the interview, Chairman Choi replied to the grandmother with the intent of “I’m short on my term, but I’ll try to do my best. I’m not sure how long it will take, but I’ll follow the procedure and review it.”
Kim Hyun-jeong, a member of the Promotion Committee, said, “It was an atmosphere of taking (the grandmother’s proposal) seriously,” said CEO Kim Hyeon-jeong,’Comfort Women’s Action for Compensation and Education (CARE)’.
After the interview, the grandmother met with reporters and said, “I did everything I could, but there is no other alternative.” She emphasized the solution of the comfort women problem through ICJ judgment.
Earlier this month, this grandmother sent a public video message to Chairman Choi for an interview. He appealed to the Japanese government and Professor Mark Ramsey at Harvard University to respond firmly to the distortion of history, to support the proposal to refer to the ICJ, and to submit a written opinion affirming Japan’s legal responsibility in domestic litigation against Japan by himself and other victims.
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