Arrest warrant issued for South Korea's former president Lee

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An arrest warrant has been issued for South Korea's former President Lee Myung-bak on corruption allegations

Lee, 77, is accused of bribery, embezzlement, tax evasion and other charges, including allegedly accepting $10.2m from South Korea's spy agency and major corporations.

The conservative main opposition Liberty Korea Party called Lee's arrest "mortifying and cruel".

Sex slave issue: South Korea's Moon criticises Japan

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President Moon slams Japan's insistence that issue of sexual slavery during World War II occupation has been settled.

South Korea's President Moon Jae-in has once again criticised Japan over its wartime use of "comfort women", calling it a "crime against humanity".

"To resolve the comfort women issue, the Japanese government, the perpetrator, should not say the matter is closed," he said.

"The issue of a crime against humanity committed in time of war cannot be closed with just a word. A genuine resolution of unfortunate history is to remember it and learn a lesson from it," Moon added.

"I hope Japan will be able to genuinely reconcile with its neighbours on which it inflicted suffering and will walk the path of peaceful coexistence and prosperity together."

The term "comfort women" refers to a Japanese practice during World War II - and before - whereby Korean women, among others, were forced to work as sex slaves in military brothels.


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“It is our indigenous territory,” he said of the islands, called Dokdo in Korea and Takeshima in Japan. “Japan’s current denial of this fact is no different from rejecting self-reflection of (its) imperialistic invasion.”