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S. Koreans Urge Japan to Make Apology for Past Aggression

Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- The Pusan Movement Headquarters for Uprooting Deep-seated Evils and Realizing Great Social Reforms and other civic and public organizations in Pusan of south Korea held a rally for "erection of a forcibly drafted worker statue and repeal of the south Korea-Japan agreement on protection of military intelligence" outside the Japanese consulate general in Pusan on August 15, according to the south Korean Yonhap News.

Speakers said that the Japanese government should make an apology for the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army and abolish the "agreement" on the sexual slavery at once.

At the end of the rally its participants marched, holding a large placard reading "Japan should make apology for its war crimes".