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Japanese heavyweight's remarks under fire

KCNA

    Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Measure Committee for Demanding Compensation to Comfort Women for the Japanese Army and the Victims of Forcible Drafting issued a statement on June 8, denouncing Taro Aso, chairman of the Policy Research Council of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, for his groundless remarks about the policy pursued by the Japanese imperialists during their military occupation of Korea under which they 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, the Japanese taught Korean alphabets and it is Japan that enforced the compulsory educational system, the statement said, and went on: It is not a mere "mistake" coming from the lack of understanding of history or the lack of the gift of the gab that the murderers are styling themselves as "benefactors" in the presence of those who experienced and witnessed the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule.
    However hard the Japanese reactionaries may embellish and beautify historical facts, they can never cover up their crime-woven history.
    The "law on emergency" targeted at the DPRK was openly passed through the diet, military exercises simulating "emergency on the Korean Peninsula" are being launched and right-wing reactionaries' frantic war moves are overheated in Japan.
    All the facts prove that conservative political figures of Japan are hell-bent on creating a favorable atmosphere in a bid to justify the history of blood-stained aggression, avoid the responsibility for their past crimes and realize their long-cherished ambition for reinvasion of Korea. Japan would be well advised to liquidate its criminal past and take the road of peace and stability of Asia, not the road of becoming military power, mindful of bitter lessons of the last century.
    This is favorable for Japan itself and for it to get trust and reconciliation with Asian people.