Seoul plans Int’l conference on wartime sexual violence

By Riyaz ul Khaliq

ANKARA (AA) - South Korea will hold an international conference to discuss issue of wartime sexual violence, local media reported.

According to KBS World Radio, South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha told media that her government is planning to hold the conference where people from across the globe will come up with ways to support victims wartime sexual violence.

The conference is scheduled to be held in the first half of the current year.

“[Our] ministry is mulling ways to actively take part in various global gatherings on wartime sexual violence to make sure the international community will not forget the painful experience of victims of Japan’s wartime sexual enslavement,” Kang said.

Her response came after journalists asked her about the government’s follow-up measures to a South Korea-Japan deal on settling the issue of wartime sex slavery.

“Seoul believes the 2015 deal failed to properly reflect the opinions of the victims and thus can't be a genuine solution to the sex slavery issue,” Kang said.

“Nonetheless, South Korea will not renegotiate the agreement and thus the deal will continue to exist,” she added.