South Korea's Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se has ruled out any possibility of the government's renegotiation of last month's agreement with Japan on the issue of "comfort women."
A Foreign Ministry official said Yun clarified his stance over the issue when he met with lawmakers from the main opposition Minjoo Party of Korea at his office on Tuesday.
The ministry official added that the MPK lawmakers, including floor leader Lee Jong-Kul, demanded Seoul's renegotiation of what they branded as a "humiliating" deal with Japan to resolve the decades-long impasse over the forced Korean sex slaves who served in Japan's military brothels during World War Two.
Yun told the MPK lawmakers, that the ministry is not considering renegotiating the deal with Tokyo, asserting that the agreement reflects the highly important move by the Japanese government to take responsibility for the wartime atrocity, according to the ministry official.
Under the agreement reached on December 28, Japan expressed its apologies and remorse over the comfort women issue and vowed to pay 1 billion yen ($8.3 million) to create a fund for the former South Korean comfort women.
However, recent opinion polls show that a majority of South Koreans, as well as the victims criticize the deal as allowing Japan to stop short of clearly acknowledging its legal responsibility for the atrocity.
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