U.N. chief has 1st meeting with ex-"comfort woman"

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (R) shakes hands with Gil Won Ok, one of the surviving South Korean victims, known as "comfort women," of Japan's wartime military-run brothels at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 11, 2016. Ban met with a former comfort woman for the first time since he assumed the U.N. post in 2007, according to a spokesperson for the secretary general. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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