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Document on Japan's Sexual Slavery Opened to Public

Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- A list of sexual slaves for the Imperial Japanese Army captured as POWs was recently discovered among the declassified documents in Thailand at a time when Japan is making desperate efforts to keep its hideous crimes committed in the past buried into oblivion.

The list of those sexual slaves kept in a Thai POW camp after the Pacific War said there were at least 1,500 Korean women and the names of over 460 women were given, according to the south Korean broadcasting service KBS.

Just before its defeat Japan's military issued a secret order to register those sexual slaves as "assistant nurses" for fear of the disclosure of its crimes against humanity.

It is the first time that such list was opened to the public.