S. Korean court declines to rule on comfort women deal with Japan

S. Korean court declines to rule on comfort women deal with Japan

Photo taken Dec. 27, 2019, shows South Korea's Constitutional Court in Seoul. The court later in the day declined to rule on the constitutionality of a 2015 deal with Japan that aimed to financially help Korean women who were forced to work in the Japanese military's wartime brothels and dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of plaintiffs consisting of former comfort women and their family members. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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