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KCNA refutes Japanese heavyweight's preposterous remarks

KCNA

    Pyongyang, June 5 (KCNA) -- The chairman of the Policy Research Council of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan at a lecture on the understanding of history held on May 31 reportedly let loose preposterous remarks over the policy pursued by Japan during its military occupation of Korea under which it forced the Koreans to change their names into Japanese ones. He claimed that the policy was enforced because Koreans asked Japan to name them in Japanese, adding that Japanese taught Korean alphabets, it is Japan that enforced the compulsory educational system and it would be better to have a correct understanding of history.
    These are an intolerable mockery of the Korean nation as they laid bare Japan's impudence of flatly denying its past crimes committed against the Koreans. The policy of changing the Korean names into Japanese ones was part of Japan's colonial policy to exterminate the Korean nation and assimilate its members to Japanese and thus convert Koreans into Japanese subjects. The 1939 Japan worked out and promulgated a law on disallowing the Koreans to go by their peculiar Korean names and changing them into Japanese ones and carried it out at the point of bayonet. Japan forcibly took Koreans to "consultation offices for changing names " and did not allow the children whose parents did not change their names to enter schools at all levels or continue their studies a higher level and get jobs but drafted them for compulsory labor of various forms, labour conscription and the "patriotic corps" before any others was this what Koreans actually requested? The Koreans which value national identity more than any other nation still remember very well the bitter disgrace and insult they had suffered when they were deprived of their names given by their parents and forced to go by Japanese ones. His outbursts are bitterly censured and denounced by the unbiased public opinion as they laid bare Japan's intention to justify the criminal past of Japan at any cost and realize its old dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere"