U.S. agrees Japan, S. Korea should implement "comfort women" deal

U.S. agrees Japan, S. Korea should implement "comfort women" deal

Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama meets with reporters in front of the U.S. State Department in Washington on June 26, 2017, following talks with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan. The two countries affirmed the importance of Tokyo and Seoul implementing a 2015 bilateral agreement to resolve the issue of Korean women forced into wartime Japanese brothels. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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