March 28, 2024
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North Korea echoes South Korean criticism of Japan on Berlin statue controversy

Tokyo's effort to get comfort woman statue removed from Berlin receives criticism from both Koreas

An official from a North Korean foreign ministry think tank backed up South Korea's criticism of Japan on Sunday after Tokyo tried to remove a historical comfort women statue from Berlin, Germany.

The extensive complaint, credited to the DPRK's Institute for Studies of Japan, follows a recent controversy in which a German civic group built a statue to memorialize Korean victims of Japan’s colonial-era sexual slavery, who are often referred to as "comfort women."

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