SEOUL- The South Korean government will set up a task force to examine the landmark 2015 bilateral agreement with Japan to resolve the so-called comfort women issue "finally and irreversibly," the South Korean daily Joong-Ang Ilbo reported Wednesday.South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha spoke of the plan to review the comfort women deal in an exclusive interview with the daily.

 The government task force, also joined by experts from the private sector, will look into how the wording of the bilateral accord was decided, according to the report.

 "I wondered if there was a need to include the term 'final and irreversible,'" the paper quoted Kang as saying.

 Kang told the paper she is trying to launch the task force because she thought there were areas in the agreement that must be reviewed.

 Regarding the possibility of a renegotiation of the 2015 agreement, Kang said, "Once a word is spoken, expectations gather toward it, so I have not used that term."

 At the same time, she said renegotiating the deal would become an option depending on the outcome of the upcoming examination by the task force.

 In addition to resolving the issue of Korean comfort women, who were forced to serve as prostitutes for Japanese troops before and during World War II, the bilateral agreement called on Japan to contribute one billion yen to a foundation for supporting former comfort women. Japan has completed the payment. (Jiji Press)