Cho Myung-ja describes her life as a prostitute serving U.S. military personnel stationed in South Korea,...
Cho Myung-ja, 76, describes her life as a prostitute serving U.S. military personnel stationed in South Korea, in her room in a shack outside Camp Humphreys, a U.S. military garrison, in Pyeongtaek, July 11, 2014. On June 25, 2014, sixty-four years after the Korean War broke out, Cho joined 122 surviving comfort women, as they were called, in a lawsuit against their government to reclaim, they say, human dignity and proper compensation. The women claim the South Korean government trained them and worked with pimps to run a sex trade through the 1960s and 1970s for U.S. troops, encouraged women to work as prostitutes and violated their human rights. REUTERS/James Pearson (SOUTH KOREA - Tags: CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)