(Politics) Thirty-four additional cases of Korean passengers aboard the Ukishima have been secured.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had received 34 lists of Ukishima victims from Japan and would use them to rescue victims and get to the bottom of the Ukishima incident through careful analysis, similar to the data obtained last time.

The details are also similar to those released last month and reportedly include the passenger’s date of birth and registration.

Japan sent the additional data in more than a month, after providing 19 of the total 75 data secured last month.

The government announced that it would also continue consultations with the Japanese side to obtain the remaining data.

Shortly after the liberation of Korea, the Ukishima was a Japanese naval transport ship en route to Busan, carrying Koreans from Japan who wanted to return home, and sank in a hull explosion.

Japan announced that Ukishima had struck an undersea mine and sank, killing 524 of the 3,700 people on board, but grieving families claimed that Japan had deliberately blown up the ship and killed more than 3,000 of the 7,000 to 8,000 people on board.

The Japanese government insisted there was no list of people on board, but the existence of the list was made public in May in response to a disclosure request by Japanese journalist Hu Jinshu.

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