'Comfort women' victims deny S.Korea-Japan deal

"Comfort women" victims have denied South Korea's landmark settlement with Japan on the issue.

Former comfort woman Lee Yong-Soo held a press conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York to commemorate International Women's Day and adamantly said she cannot accept the deal with Japan.

Laurie Cumbo, chair of the Women's Issues Committee of New York City, at the press conference on Tuesday urged the Japanese government to make a formal apology for its Imperialist Army's forced sexual enslavement of women during World War Two.

The New York City Council seeks to adopt a resolution pushing the Japanese government to resolve the comfort woman issue.

The 88-year-old grandmother also testified at the U.N. correspondents office to denounce Japan for glossing over the comfort women issue as well as giving an account of the atrocities she faced as a young girl by the Japanese military.

In 2013, both the New York State Senate and the House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution recognizing the plight of the comfort women followed by the state of New Jersey.