Unacceptable for Tokyo to add insult to injury again

Film footage discovered by a team of scholars from the Republic of Korea at the US National Archives and Records Administration was released by Yonhap News Agency on Tuesday. It adds to the existing documentary evidence that the Japanese military brought 30 Korean "comfort women" with them to Tengchong in Southwest China's Yunnan province, and that the women were killed on Sept 13, 1944, before the Japanese troops surrendered to Chinese forces.

The film was released after Japan made a formal complaint on Monday following the raising of the issue of comfort women at the United Nation's Human Rights Council by ROK Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha, who said there should be a "victim-centered approach" to the issue.

Although former ROK president Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe signed an agreement to resolve the issue in December 2015, as a matter of expediency to improve relations. The government of her successor, Moon Jae-in, has urged follow-up measures to the agreement because it was reached without the consent of the surviving victims.