SEOUL, June 23 (Xinhua) -- South Korea planned to inspect the agreement with Japan on the victims of wartime sex slavery as the 2015 deal caused strong resistance from the victims as well as from most of South Koreans.
An unnamed senior South Korean government official was quoted by Yonhap news agency as saying on Friday that a task force team would be set up "soon" inside the foreign ministry to comprehensively inspect the comfort women agreement.
The deal was reached on Dec. 28, 2015 between the previous Park Geun-hye government of South Korea and the Japanese cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
The "final and irreversible" agreement, in return for about 9 million U.S. dollars of compensation, triggered strong backlash in South Korea as Abe had yet to sincerely apologize for and fully own up to its wartime atrocities.
The comfort women are a euphemism for women who were forced into sexual slavery for Japanese military brothels before and during World War II.
The Korean Peninsula was colonized by the Imperial Japan from 1910 to 1945.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who took office on May 10, said most of South Koreans did not accept the comfort women deal, indicating the re-negotiations or repeal of the agreement.
The task force team of South Korea was forecast to inspect the procedure of negotiations between director-level diplomats of South Korea and Japan and whether the opinions of the comfort women victims were reflected enough in the agreement.
