The Ministry of Foreign Affairs concludes "women's comfort agreement, no competition" … Your constitutional remarks

[서울=뉴스핌] Reporter Roh Min-ho of the Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on June 5 that it was difficult to consider the consent of comfort women as an exercise of public power.

The Foreign Ministry met with reporters that day and said: "The comfort women consensus is not a treaty." In the area of ​​the direct claim of rights, we can not solve the problem of self-binding violation of fundamental rights by the political declaration of diplomats. He said.

In March 2016, a lawyer from a democratic society (Minbyeon) filed a constitutional complaint against 41 women who comfort their victims and their families.

Kim Bok-dong, victim of slavery in the Japanese army. [사진=뉴스핌 DB]

At the time, Minbian had insisted that the government had violated constitutional obligations such as the property rights of victims, the right to seek happiness, the right to know, the right to diplomatic protection and realization of the right to demand compensation from Japan.

On June 14, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs presented a response under the name of Minister Kang Kyung Hwa.

"The answer is not a defense of the legitimacy of the Korea-Japan comfort women consensus in 2015," said an official at the Foreign Ministry. It focuses on the legal and procedural aspects of constitutional remedies. "

In response, she added: "The Korea-Japan agreement on comfort women is not a solution to the problem of comfort women but it recognizes the procedural problems".

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