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 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A South Korean activist scaled a wall of the Japanese Embassy on Wednesday and staged a brief protest of Tokyo's refusal to acknowledge it forced Korean and Chinese women to work as sex slaves during World War II.
Oh Sung-taek stomped on a Japanese flag and shouted anti-Japanese slogans for 10 minutes atop one of the buildings before he was removed by police, witnesses and a police officer said. He wore a placard with a picture of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that read: "Destroy History Distortion."
Oh was among 100 protesters gathered outside the embassy for a rally that has been held every Wednesday since 1992 to demand that Japan apologize and compensate World War II sex slaves, also called "comfort women" for Japanese troops.
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