SOUTH Korea and Japan announced Dec. 28 that they have “finally and irreversibly” resolved the issue of “comfort women,” who were forced to provide sexual services to Japanese soldiers during Japan’s campaigns in Asia in the 1930s and 1940s.

In the agreement, the Japanese government issued an apology on behalf of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and promised a one-time 1 billion yen (approximately $8.3 million) government contribution to a South Korean government fund established to assist the remaining comfort women. The South Korean government, in return, agrees to no longer bring up the comfort women issue with the government of Japan or at international forums, including the United Nations.

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