Seoul - Yonhap
South Korea expressed deep regret Thursday over Japan's attempts to deny its sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II, urging Tokyo to stop "making contradictory remarks." Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday that Tokyo was not involved in the forced recruitment of Korean and other Asian women and there is no evidence suggesting otherwise. The chief secretary has repeatedly made remarks denying the use of force in recruiting so-called comfort women in contradiction of the Japanese government's position that it will "inherit" previous Cabinets' stances on the issue.