Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has met with an elderly Korean victim of Japan's wartime sexual slavery, the first such meeting since he took the UN's top job. Meeting in New York,... Ban told 89-year-old Kil Won-ok that he respects her efforts to raise awareness of the atrocities she suffered to make sure that no such thing will ever happen again. During their 30 minute meeting, Ban told the victim that what he welcomed a recent landmarks between between Korea and Japan, but not the content of the agreement, An activist also delivered a joint petition of some 30 international human rights organizations in which they expressed regret about Ban's welcoming of the December deal and called for the UN to launch an investigation into the wartime crime. Historians estimate that up to 200,000 women, mainly from Korea, were forced to work in front-line brothels for Japanese soldiers before and during World War II.
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