Researchers claim this is the first video showing Korean ‘comfort women’

This is the only known footage of "comfort women" in existence. Historians estimate that as many as 200,000 women and girls from occupied countries like Korea, China and the Philippines were forced to work in brothels run by the Japanese Imperial Army during WWII. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2qiJ4dy

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