S. Korean slavery victim seeks UN justice as time runs out

By KIM TONG-HYUNG
Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Thirty years ago, South Korean Lee Yong-soo went public for the first time in describing how she was abducted from home at age 16 and forced to provide sex by Japan’s wartime military. Now 93, she is one of just a few South Korean survivors of the sexual slavery in World War II and fears she’s running out of time to get closure. The dwindling survivors have been demanding since the early 1990s that the Japanese government fully accept culpability and offer an unequivocal apology. Her latest and possibly final push is to try persuade the governments of South Korea and Japan to jointly bring the issue to the International Court of Justice.