SEOUL, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- A South Korean victim of Japanese wartime military sexual slavery died of old age at 96 on Wednesday.
The death of Kim Sun-ock leaves the total number of surviving South Korean victims of Japanese military sexual slavery during World War II -- euphemistically called "comfort women" -- at 26, down from a total of 240 officially registered, according to the House of Sharing, a nursing home for living comfort women, South Korean media Hankyoreh reported.