Another S. Korean former sex slave dies
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11:55 April 04, 2017
SEOUL, April 4 (Yonhap) -- Another South Korean woman who was coerced into Japan's wartime sexual slavery died Tuesday, a local civic group said.
The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan said Lee Soon-deok died at around 7:30 a.m. at the age of 99.
Her death leaves only 38 surviving victims of Japan's brutal wartime crime. Initially, 238 women were on the list of government-registered former sex slaves.
Historians estimate that up to 200,000 women, mostly from Korea, were forced to work in front-line brothels for Japanese troops during World War II. Japan colonized Korea from 1910-45.
scaaet@yna.co.kr
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