A horrifying video was made public for the first time on Tuesday.
It shows the scene of a 1944 massacre of Korean women by Japanese troops during World War II.
Just a warning that you may find the following report distressing.
Lee Seung-jae has the details.
The team of South Korean scholars and researchers that discovered the video in the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration made it public on Tuesday at an international conference in Seoul on wartime sexual slavery.
The 19-second black-and-white clip, filmed by Allied forces of the United States and China,... adds to existing documentary evidence that the Japanese military shot and killed 30 Korean women in the western Chinese city of Tengchong on September 13,1944.
The video shows a group of bodies abandoned together, and a Chinese soldier, who is believed to have been at the scene to bury the bodies,... taking a sock off one of the victims.
This is the first known video evidence of the act,... since the same research team disclosed the Allied forces' operation diary in 2016,... which revealed terms used throughout the record,... indicating the 30 Korean women were sex slaves for the Japanese.
With the video,... experts believe there's now overwhelming evidence to prove without question the level of Japan's wartime atrocities against the forced sex slaves.
"Confessions, documents, photos, videos,.... what more do you need?
Our job is to further piece together evidence of a time in history that's being left behind."
Despite the mounting evidence,... Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe continues to demand that South Korea move on.
He told President Moon Jae-in earlier this month,... that in diplomacy, leaders must make decisions while resigning themselves to reproach,... adding that otherwise countries cannot establish future-oriented relationships.
Still seeking a proper apology from the Japanese government,... the issue is increasingly urgent for Korea,... as another former victim died earlier this month,... leaving the number of registered Korean survivors at 30.
Lee Seung-jae, Arirang News.
