SEOUL (Kyodo) -- South Korea's incoming Foreign Minister Park Jin acknowledged Wednesday that a bilateral agreement signed with Japan in 2015 over wartime "comfort women" is official, hinting how the new government, led by President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol, would approach history issues with Tokyo.
The two countries signed a deal in December 2015 to put an end to the historical feud over women who worked at wartime Japanese military brothels against their will. However, the current Moon Jae-in government that came into office in 2017 described it as "seriously flawed," causing bilateral ties to sink to the lowest point in years.
