The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea (CBCK) has voiced opposition to the recent agreement between South Korea and Japan on Tokyo’s wartime sexual slavery, calling it "a result of drawing over human rights with an economic sense of mind."

The CBCK committee for justice and peace said in a statement on Monday that although Japan’s official apology was mentioned in the agreement, Japan did not specify its responsibility, and so the deal can not be regarded as a sincere apology.

The committee said that the sex slavery issue should be reviewed in a way that focuses on dignity of the victims.

Bishop Yoo Heung-sik, who heads the committee, visited the House of Sharing, a home for sexual slavery victims in western Seoul on Friday to console the elderly victims.