article_snippet.sent: The nightmares from five years as a sex slave of the Japanese army, from 1940 onwards, are still crystal clear.
article_snippet.sent: Kim Bok-dong was a 14-year-old girl when the Japanese came to Kim Bok-dong village in Korea.
article_snippet.sent: Kim Bok-dong says the Japanese told Kim Bok-dong Kim Bok-dong had no choice but to leave Kim Bok-dong home and family to support the war effort by working at a sewing factory.
article_snippet.sent: If we didn't go, we'd be considered traitors," Instead of going to a sewing factory, Kim Bok-dong says Kim Bok-dong ended up in Japanese military brothels in half a dozen countries.
article_snippet.sent: Along with about 30 other women, Kim Bok-dong says Kim Bok-dong was locked in a room and forced to do things no teenage girl -- no woman -- should ever have to do.
article_snippet.sent: When I started, the Japanese military would often beat me because I wasn't submissive," Kim Bok-dong says.
article_snippet.sent: When it comes to the comfort women sex slave system, it is pretty much unique to Japan.
highlights_snippet.sent: Kim Bok-dong was held prisoner by the Japanese military in a "comfort station" for five years, raped ceaselessly .
  