KCNA lays bare true colours of Japan as war criminal state
KCNA
Pyongyang, July 7 (KCNA) -- The "remembrance, responsibility and future" fund of Germany on June 30 declared that it has paid reparations to the tune of 2.3 billion euro to 1.37 million victims to forced labor of 70 countries of the world including Russia and Ukraine from June 2001 to June 2003.
It is said that the fund will continue compensating till 2005, with the funds coming from the federal budget and private companies of Germany.
As is well known, Germany, a war criminal state in Europe, has sincerely paid reparations and made compensation for scores of years to those nations and individuals that fell victim to fascist Germany in one way or the other during the Second World War after deeming it a state responsibility to compensate for the war crimes and apologizing for them.
According to information available, Germany paid 122.3 billion mark equivalent to 7,900 billion yen as reparations by the end of the 20th century.
But the attitude taken by Japan, another war criminal state in Asia, is quite the opposite.
Japan has paid only 356, 552.07 million yen in compensation according to article 14 a of the San Francisco Peace Pact which stipulates that "Japan admits that it has to compensate allies for damage and sufferings it inflicted upon them during the war" and bilateral treaty and agreement signed in the subsequent period.
Japan had refused to apologize to the Asian people for its crimes committed against them for half a century. Only on the 50th anniversary of its defeat it made a "repentance" for mere form's sake through the so-called "Statement of Murayama (the then prime minister)."
It was no more than a verbal repentance and apology. Japan has not made any sincere compensation or reparation for mental, human and material damage it did to the Korean people.
During its colonial military rule over Korea the Japanese imperialists forcibly drafted more than 8.4 million young and middle-aged Koreans and killed over one million Koreans.
A special mention should be made of the fact that they forced more than 200,000 Korean women into sexual slavery for the imperial Japanese army and killed many of them in cold blood.
The Japanese imperialists indiscriminately destroyed or looted valuable cultural heritages handed down by ancestors and plundered Korea of natural resources and products without limit.
The crimes committed by Japan in the past are too many to enumerate. Yet, there is no prospect of Japan's redress for them though nearly 60 years have passed since its defeat.
Even in this new century Japan is talking about a "peace state," a "normal state" and "future", keeping mum about the aggression and plunder it committed against Korea and other Asian countries. On the contrary it is keen to emerge a military power and launch expansion overseas.
This is clearly evidenced by the fact that on July 4 shortly after it was reported that Germany has made fresh efforts to carve out its future after getting understanding from countries around it by liquidating its gloomy past, Japan was so brazen-faced as to approve at its diet a bill on dispatching heavily armed self-defence force to Iraq.
Japan is getting more zealous than any other countries in supporting the U.S. in its strategy to stifle the DPRK over the "nuclear issue." This poses a great threat not only to the Korean peninsula but to the rest part of Asia.
japan is greatly mistaken, however.
The Korean nation is by no means what it used to be in the past and Asia today is not what it was in the past, either.
The army and the people of the DPRK will resolutely foil Japan's moves to launch reinvasion of Korea under the uplifted banner of Songun to protect the peace and stability on the peninsula and in the rest of Asia.
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