The World - News from Aug. 15, 1989

South Korea is seeking $2.3 billion from Japan in reparations for Korean victims of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the newspaper Dong-A Ilbo reported in Seoul. The newspaper said that diplomatic talks are under way and that Tokyo is said to be ready to accommodate part of Seoul’s request. During Japan’s long occupation of Korea, many Koreans were taken to Japan as laborers, and Korea’s reparations demand is based on complaints from exposed workers who survived the 1945 bombings that they got no compensation from Japan for their sufferings.