South Korea foreign minister says respecting 2015 comfort women deal

South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin said Tuesday he conveyed to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in their meeting Seoul's intent to respect a 2015 bilateral agreement to settle the issue of Koreans forced to work as "comfort women" in Japan's wartime military brothels.Park's remark following his courtesy call on Kishida earlier in the day came after the accord to "finally and irreversibly" settle the long-standing issue had been effectively scrapped under South Korea's previous administration despite Tokyo urging Seoul to follow through on the deal.Park told reporters in Tokyo he ex…READ FULL ARTICLE