The content we present here relates to the Kamikaze Special Attack Unit and the everfamiliar LEE Halmoni.
Please have a listen to Director KIM:
LEE Yong-soo Fact-checks taken by a Kamikaze Unit at the Age of “14”?!
January 12, 2021
KIM Byung-heon, Representative of the National Action to Abolish the Comfort
Women Act
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLqb6FLBbUk

Hello, everyone. I’m KIM Byung-heon of the Korean History Channel.
It happened this past January 8. In the suit seeking filed against the Japanese
government by 12 former comfort women, including the late Ms. BAE Chun-hee, thecourt made a ruling in favor of the plaintiffs.
The verdict orders the Japanese government to “pay 100 million won to each of the 12.”
Tomorrow, January 13, was the day scheduled for the ruling of the First Court
concerning damages filed by 20 plaintiffs, including the late Ms. KWAK Ye-nam. It has
now been postponed to March 24.
I have studied the plaintiff’s claims of the January 8 trial and the statements submitted
by the plaintiff’s attorneys for the trail for March 24 and have found various
inconsistencies. The claims and allegations are totally inconsistent with historical facts.
And I wondered if what they stated and claimed were in fact real and if these statements
and claims in fact constitute evidence.
Accordingly, in order to get to the bottom of all this, I make this video, scrutinizing allof the facts. I plan to produce many more of these videos in the future.
The Japanese comfort women issue is grounded in the Comfort Women Act [of SouthKorea]. Article 2, Paragraph 1 of the “Comfort Women Act” defines Japanese military
comfort women victims. Let me read the relevant paragraph:1

“Japanese military comfort women victims refer to victims who were forcibly
mobilized by the Empire of Japan, sexually abused and forced to live a life of acomfort woman.”
The Empire of Japan here means the Japanese army. The Act claims that Japanesemilitary comfort women victims are women who were forcibly mobilized and sexually
abused by the Japanese army and forced by the Japanese army to live as comfortwomen.
Now, I studied a number of materials related to this issue, including the statementsof comfort women, and found that absolutely no Korean woman falls under thisdefinition, that she was a Japanese military comfort women victim.
Allow me to explain:This photo, dated November 13, 2019, shows Ms. LEE Yong-soo, the one sitting in thecenter of the photo. Let me tell you about Ms. LEE, as her statement is seen as agenuine, suffering comfort woman halmoni.
Sadly, Ms. LEE Yong-soo’s statement has numerous issues.
She shifts her claims and stories wherever she speaks, depending on the setting, suchthat she has acquired the name “LEE Yong-soo the Inconstant Liar”. The point is thatthe claim she gave in the court was not just given as her own story but as sworn andlawful testimony. This is important to consider.
What did LEE say? “Your Honor, in all your wisdom, please look. I did nothing wrong.
At the age of 14, I was taken by Japan -- not Japan but the Japanese army, I should say-- taken by the Japanese army and suffered all kinds of torture including electric shocks
by the Kamikaze Unit before I returned. Under rain and snow, I have spent the past 30years crying out in front of the Japanese Embassy. Crying for an investigation, for anapology and compensation -- that is how I have lived for more than 90 years”
A newspaper article dated November 13: “Her tearful appeal filled courtroom 558 atSeoul Central District Court. LEE Yong-soo Halmoni, who was using a wheelchair,2stood on her knees when she was granted a hearing. It was done before the chief judge,
sitting at the highest position in the court.” Very emotional.
So let us take a look to see if LEE, who “was taken by the Japanese army at the age of14 and tortured with electric shocks by the Kamikaze Unit” conforms to the facts. I willtake up the claims of torture with electric shocks later.
She says that she was taken by the Japanese army to a Kamikaze Unit when she was 14!
Let’s think about this.
She was kidnapped and taken to the Kamikaze Unit when she was 14.
Ms. LEE Yong-soo was born in 1928, so she was 14 years old in 1942.
Here is a photo of a Japanese fighter airplane, a “Zero”, used by the Kamikaze Special
Attack Unit [a photo of a Zero fighter appears] to crash into U.S. warships, a very wellknown airplane at the time. The Zero is a single-seater. Now, Ms. LEE’s initial stories,in 1993, say that she was born in 1928.
If she was born in 1928, then she was 14 years old in 1942.
Did the Kamikaze Special Attack Unit exist in 1942?
The Kamikaze Special Attack Unit was first organized on October 20, 1944 in thePhilippines. On October 25, 1944, the unit made their first assault in the Battle of Leyte
Gulf. In January 1945, full scale attacks by Kamikaze volunteers started. So, in 1942,
when Ms. LEE was 14 years old, there was no Kamikaze Special Attack Unit—this“Kamikaze” unit did not exist.
Thus, Ms. LEE’s testimony, in court, that she was taken to the Kamikaze SpecialAttack unit at the age of 14 is false and a lie.
She says that she 14 years old when she was grabbed but was it possible, at all, to be a
comfort woman at this age? Remember, a 14-year-old at the time was a middle school
student--a juvenile.
Now, let’s take a look at a newspaper from those days. The Mainichi Shimbun datedOctober 27, 1944 ran an ad recruiting comfort women.

3It stated that the place of employment is the comfort station for Unit “XX” andqualifications include being between 18 to 30 years old and in good physical health.
Thus the minimum age is 18!

There is another--Ms. KIM Hak-sun, often referred to as the first to claim she was aformer [Koream] comfort woman. In Volume 1 of The Forcibly Drafted Korean
Comfort Women, a collection of testimonies issued by the Korean Council for theWomen Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, Ms. KIM states:“After a certificate was issued at the assignation office, it was possible to work as aregular kisaeng. An official kisaeng license was given only after turning 19 year of age.
When I completed the course, however, I was only 17 and could not work even if I
finished the training.”
She clearly stated “19 years of age.” To state age in complete Western cycles, thiswould be 18 years of age.
A Korean newspaper in 1934 had an article, “Where is the licensed prostitution issuegoing?”
At that time, licensed prostitution was abolished in Japan. In Korea, however, licensed
prostitution was present at the time of the Liberation and of course during the Korean
War. Licensed prostitution was fully maintained at the time of Korean “Liberation”.
Underground prostitution was strictly prohibited and those to work as prostitutes,
barmaids or professional entertainers had to be at least 17 years of age (in principle).
Those under 17 were not given the license unless they were free of infectious diseases
and met other requirements.
The article further stated that, it was only possible for women to engage in these
professions when they were at least 17 years old, had no infectious diseases and met
other qualification requirements. Again, girls under 17 were not permitted to work as aprostitute.

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So, Ms. LEE Yong-soo’s account—that she was grabbed by the Japanese army to work
for a ”Kamikaze Special Attack Unit” at the age of 14, or forcibly mobilized by theJapanese army to the Kamikaze Unit – is any of this real? Or are these fabrications?
Fact-checking shows that this is false. Clearly falsehoods.
The important point is that Ms. LEE Yong-soo claimed that she was taken by theJapanese army to the Kamikaze Special Attack Unit at the age of 14, as a witness to alegal proceeding, and nobody else, no one, was brought in as a witness.
Therefore, if she is lying then she will need to pay the consequences of lying in opencourt.
Ms. LEE Yong-soo obviously gave false witness!
The Court must reflect on the ridiculous statements given by Ms. LEE Yong-soo.
If the Court merely regurgitates “sovereign immunity” based on previous nonsense fromso called comfort women, physical evidence and so on without verification, and if theyrule in favor of the plaintiffs again, this will only demonstrate to the world that theKorean judiciary is corrupt. Period.
If this happens, then Koreans today are no better off than being under the Joseon
Dynasty.
Thank you for being with me today!

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