South Korea top court orders Japan firm to compensate for forced labor

South Korea's Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling from several years ago that ordered a Japanese steel firm to compensate four South Koreans who were victims of forced labor during Japanese colonial rule.The ruling against Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. is likely to aggravate bilateral ties, already strained over a territorial dispute and the issue of women forced to work at wartime Japanese brothels.The Japanese government, maintaining its position that the issue of compensation was resolved under a 1965 bilateral accord, quickly condemned the ruling, with Prime Minis…READ FULL ARTICLE