A 57-year-old man was indicted Monday for attempted arson on the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, presumably out of anger over a historical dispute between South Korea and Japan, prosecutors said.
  

The defendant, identified only by his surname Kim, is suspected of approaching the embassy with four bottles of soju and a 1.5-liter plastic bottle filled with gasoline, as well as a lighter at around 7:20 p.m on Sept. 5 before being caught by a police officer on guard, the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office said.
  

Prosecutors said Kim planned to set the fire as he was "disgusted by Japan's shameless attitude regarding South Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery for Japanese soldiers during World War II."
  

Seoul demands that Tokyo acknowledge state responsibility for the sex slaves, while Tokyo insists the issue was settled under the normalization treaty of 1965. (Yonhap)