Controversial New Book Challenges Narrative That WWII Japan Forced Korean Women Into Prostitution

Harvard Law Professor J. Mark Ramseyer’s new book about a North Korean plot to ruin relations between South Korea, Japan, and the United States has stirred controversy around the world. In this stunning episode of Words That Matter, he tells Lee Smith that the facts of the issue have been known for decades.

01:45 J. Mark Ramseyer, author, The Comfort Women Hoax.”
02:27 The controversial “Comfort Women” hoax and its fallout
04:07: Ramseyer: Japan didn’t force Korean women into prostitution
07:12: “Comfort women” narrative based on a fake 1983 memoir
11:55: Hoax adapted by North Korean spy ring
12:47: “Sex slavery” narrative devised to hurt South Korea-Japan relations
18:30: Vicious Western academic response to Ramseyer’s myth-busting
23:46: Didn’t matter when hoax instigator admitted his memoir was false
28:05: South Korean left is pro-North Korea and China
35:36: Response received for the Comfort Woman Hoax Book

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