A group of South Korean prostitutes
submitted to the South Korean Constitutional Court a petition to abolish
controversial anti-prostitution law enacted in 2004, whose aim is to protect
human rights of Korean women said to
have been much abused in the country.
They argue that prohibition of
prostitution violates their fundamental human rights since their sex work is
extremely vital to them as a means of income, a way of generating income
considered to be better than stealing.
Mr. Nishimura Kohyu, a Japanese journalist comments on their move as
follows;
Their claim contains an impending impact on
“Comfort Women” dispute widely reported by South Korean government much biased
against Japan. Submission of the petition somehow denies that prostitution they
refer to is “human trafficking”, of which South Korean government has recently
accused Japan after The Asahi Shimbun retracted its stories related to “Korean
women coerced into prostitution”. The other day, U.S. government, namely Mr.
Daniel R. Russel, Assistant Secretary of State for East
Asian and Pacific Affairs, welcome with open arms Prime Minister Abe’s
confirmation that comfort women were victims of “human trafficking” in an
interview with The Washington Post. And, although U.S. House Minority Leader
Ms. Nancy Pelosi, one of those who strongly pushed forward U.S. House
Resolution 121 along with Mr. Mike Honda 8 years ago, she didn’t even say a word about “Comfort
women” when she met Prime Minister Abe in Japan on April 3.
We wonder what Mr. Russel is going to say about the Korean prostitutes’ claim.
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