North Korean officials have reiterated their demand for compensation for Japanese use of Korean “Comfort Women” during World War II.

In addition to North Korea’s continued pursuit of reparations for Korean women taken as sex slaves by the Imperial Japanese Army in WWII, this month’s talks will also address the DPRK’s nuclear program and Japanese citizens abducted by the DPRK in the 1970s and ’80s.

This will be the first such high-level meeting between the two countries since talks were stalled in late 2012 following a North Korean long-range missile test.

“Our goal is to properly settle outstanding issues of