An official from a North Korean foreign ministry think tank backed up South Korea's criticism of Japan on Sunday after Tokyo tried to remove a historical comfort women statue from Berlin, Germany.
The extensive complaint, credited to the DPRK's Institute for Studies of Japan, follows a recent controversy in which a German civic group built a statue to memorialize Korean victims of Japan’s colonial-era sexual slavery, who are often referred to as "comfort women."
An official from a North Korean foreign ministry think tank backed up South Korea's criticism of Japan on Sunday after Tokyo tried to remove a historical comfort women statue from Berlin, Germany.
The extensive complaint, credited to the DPRK's Institute for Studies of Japan, follows a recent controversy in which a German civic group built a statue to memorialize Korean victims of Japan’s colonial-era sexual slavery, who are often referred to as "comfort women."
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