About 300 Korean victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during World War Two plan to file a class action suit seeking compensation from the Japanese government.

An association of Korean victims said Thursday that it will seek damages of one million yen per person, about 16 million won, from the Japanese government. The suit will be filed Friday with the Hiroshima district court.

Japan’s highest court last November ordered payments to 40 South Korean victims of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, 12 years after the suit was filed.

The association said that the latest lawsuit was organized because the Japanese government is dragging its feet on the compensation issue.

The number of atomic bomb survivors in Korea is estimated at 27-hundred, mostly in their 70s and 80s.

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