1. The Foreign Ministry’s Director-General for Northeast Asian Affairs Lee Sang-deok will meet with Director-General of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau Junichi Ihara of the Japanese Foreign Ministry in Seoul on March 16 to discuss the issue of sexual slavery victims drafted for Japan’s Imperial Army during World War II.

2. The two sides have held six rounds of the meeting since April 2014


               Spokesperson and Deputy Minister for Public Relations of MOFA

* unofficial translation