S. Korea’s Lee decries ‘mindless defamation’ of comfort women victims

President Lee Jae Myung on Tuesday condemned a recent spate of vandalism targeting memorial statues honoring victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery, calling the incidents “mindless acts of defamation against the deceased.” Lee shared a news article on X reporting that members of a far-right civic group had been defacing so-called “comfort women” statues, which