The U.S. government, the Pentagon, and the government it created in South Korea after World War II,

established a system of mass sex trafficking and sexual slavery that ensnared thousands,

perhaps tens of thousands of women in South Korea. The victims, the women, the survivors are now fighting back,

even as South Korea continues to be occupied

by tens of thousands of U.S. troops.

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Today we're talking with journalist and scholar KJ No. KJ is a peace activist also. He's an organizer with the organization Pivot to Peace.

He's a frequent contributor to counterpunch and dissident voice. KJ. No, welcome back.

Thank you. Pleasure to be with you.

KJ, you know, this article in the New York Times that really jumped out at anyone who could

possibly have taken a look at

it, very dramatic, and in a way seemingly novel because it's about a system that existed for decades,

but the U.S. media has never covered it at all that I can tell, the mainstream media.

So it seemed like a bombshell, like a revelation. Tens of thousands of women basically conscripted as sex slaves,

not by the Japanese government, which we know all too well about during World War II in the

era of colonial domination of all of Korea by Japan.

But this was the Pentagon.

This was the U.S. military.

And the government, it created a puppet military dictatorship in South Korea after World

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