19:36, 12-Jan-2018
'Comfort Women' Deal: Japan PM Abe rejects S. Korea's call to do more
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Next is our Asia Focus segment. Today we look at the deal between Japan and South Korea on wartime sexual slavery.
SHINZO ABE JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER "The Japan-South Korea agreement issue is a promise between two nations. Keeping this promise is an international and universal principle. We cannot accept South Korea's unilateral demands for additional measures."
This first rejection from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in response to South Korea's call for more steps to help "comfort women", who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War Two. Abe, meanwhile, urged Seoul to honor the 2015 agreement. The deal calls for an apology from Japan and includes a promise of almost nine-million US dollars to help victims.