This article documents how Chongdaehyop has exercised extraordinary influence over South Korea’s Japan policy while operating under the name of comfort women. It exposes the contradiction of a group claiming to defend human rights while aligning with pro–North Korean, anti-American movements and ignoring ongoing human rights abuses.

August 8, 2017.
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
Chongdaehyop has exercised major influence over the South Korean government’s policy toward Japan while acting in the name of comfort women.
Close associates of key officials, including Representative Yoon Mi-hyang, have in the past been tried and sentenced to prison on charges of espionage or violations of the National Security Act.
Many Chongdaehyop officials have opposed the dissolution of the Unified Progressive Party, which was disbanded by the Constitutional Court for its pro–North Korean orientation.
The repeated visits by Chongdaehyop officials to North Korea and their persistent promotion of inter-Korean solidarity are not for the human rights or welfare of former comfort women, but rather reflect the movement’s ideological commitment to “unification.”
From North Korea’s consistent perspective, Japan and the United States are obstacles to unification.
According to “Twenty Years of the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan,” Chongdaehyop proudly claims that it achieved inter-Korean unification at the civil society level by jointly addressing the comfort women issue.
In December 2011, Chongdaehyop sent a condolence telegram to North Korea expressing deep sorrow to “our northern compatriots” over the sudden death of Chairman Kim.
The core problem is that comfort women and Chongdaehyop have come to be completely conflated.
By invoking the name of comfort women, Chongdaehyop has exerted decisive influence over South Korea’s Japan policy.
The content is truly chilling.
It was impossible to reduce it to a compact list.
In summary, Chongdaehyop leaders repeatedly visited North Korea, actively participated in anti-American activities, strongly supported the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye, and desperately defended the pro–North Korean Unified Progressive Party after its dissolution.
They also opposed joint military exercises with U.S. forces and actively sought the abolition of the National Security Act.
All of this has been carried out under the guise of women’s organizations and human rights groups.
If women’s rights truly mattered, former comfort women should be rescued from organizations that align themselves with forces that currently enslave women in concentration camps.
If women’s rights truly mattered, statues should be erected for those women who are raped at will by camp guards in North Korea and killed along with their unborn children if they become pregnant.
Why, then, can such groups issue joint statements and cooperate with those forces.
One cannot help but question whether they possess any human conscience at all.
Testimonies by defectors describe women being tortured by having snakes forced onto their genitals, iron rods thrust into them, and finally being kicked to death.
These testimonies are on record.
The woman in question was a Zainichi Korean forcibly repatriated to the North.
And yet Chongdaehyop actively collaborates with such groups.
It is impossible not to feel dismay.