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   Trump Rants About “Comfort Women” While Meeting with Foreign President   
   It happened while he was speaking with South Korean President Lee Jae-   
   myung.   
   President Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung meet at the   
   White House.   
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   President Donald Trump’s meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung   
   took an unexpected turn Monday when the U.S. leader decided to bring up the   
   topic of forced prostitution.   
      
   The White House meeting spanned several geopolitical issues, including   
   potential unification of South Korea and North Korea, economic partnerships   
   between South Korea and the U.S., as well as South Korea’s political   
   stability, which has been on shaky ground since former President Yoon Suk   
   Yeol declared martial law in December.   
      
   But then Trump dropped a seemingly unrelated doozy into the afternoon   
   conversation: Japan’s sex-based war crimes.   
      
   “The whole issue of the women. Comfort women,” Trump remarked, seated   
   beside Lee. “Very specifically, we talked and that was a very big problem   
   for Korea, not for Japan. Japan was, wanted to go, they want to get on.   
   And—but Korea was very stuck on that, you understand.”   
      
   The term “comfort women” was a euphemism coined by the Japanese military to   
   describe women or girls who were forced into sexual slavery by Japanese   
   soldiers during World War II, according to the Association of Asian   
   Studies. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of women were   
   victimized by Japan and forced into military sex slavery during the war,   
   which amounted to the largest case of government-sponsored human   
   trafficking in modern history. The continued use of the phrase “comfort   
   women” has been roundly criticized for minimizing the harm and gravity of   
   Japan’s actions.   
      
   The topic is still a heavily charged political issue for the two nations,   
   especially as surviving victims seek formal recognition of the atrocities   
   by Tokyo.   
      
   But as Trump attempts to push his numerous ties to child sex trafficker   
   Jeffrey Epstein into the rearview, it’s no surprise that he doesn’t   
   understand why South Korea would have a difficult time moving past the   
   abuse. The president has, after all, been found liable for sexually abusing   
   women in the past.   
      
   In 2015, Japan apologized to the South Korean victims and reached an   
   agreement with the conservative leadership in South Korea at the time to   
   give 1 billion yen—or $6.8 million—in reparations.   
      
   Regardless, Lee called the matter a “heartbreaking issue” for South Koreans   
   last week, noting that the 2015 arrangement was “very difficult to accept”   
   for many victims in the country, but that it was nonetheless “undesirable   
   to overturn it.”   
      
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