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KCNA Refutes Tokyo Governor's Anti-DPRK Remarks

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- Tokyo Metropolitan Governor Ishihara was reported to have talked nonsense about the "Korea-Japan Annexation Treaty" which justified the Japanese imperialists' colonial military occupation of Korea at a meeting held on Oct. 28. He said "Japan had not invaded Korea by force of arms" and the two countries "agreed on the annexation according to the unanimous will of the Koreans", adding that "the responsibility for this rests with the predecessors of Koreans".
    These are shameful remarks as they totally denied Japan's invasion of Korea that recorded a shameful page in the world history in the 20th century and revealed its intention to justify its past crimes and repeat them.
    Explicitly speaking, the treaty was signed by force as the Japanese imperialists forged the seal of the king who represented the state sovereignty, and forced cabinet ministers at the point of bayonet to sign it after occupying Korea.
    The treaty brought intolerable national repression and harsh economic plunder, unprecedentedly murderous labor and massacre to the Koreans under the tyrannical rule of the Japanese imperialists.
    This notwithstanding, Ishihara claimed that the treaty was signed according to the will of the Koreans. This can not but be sheer sophism of militarist fanatic and an unpardonable mockery of the Koreans.
    From long ago, he called the DPRK "Hokusen" and blustered that "north Korea must be brought down" and "Japan has a legitimate right to fight a war against north Korea." His recent nonsensical remarks about the treaty prove that he is a dyed-in-the-wool ultra-nationalist and typical warhawk.
    What matters is that his remarks have something in common with words tampering with Japan's history heard from among heavyweights of the Japanese ruling party these days.
    It was only recently that Taro Aso of the Liberal Democratic Party blustered that the "change of the names of Koreans into Japanese" during Japan's military occupation of Korea was made at their own requests and Dietman Takami Eto talked rubbish that "both countries signed the treaty and the UN unconditionally recognized it".
    All these reckless remarks of the Japanese right-wing reactionaries including Ishihara are a wanton violation of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration that calls for redeeming the past between the two countries and improving bilateral relations as they are a fabrication and distortion of history and concentrically represent their hostile policy toward the DPRK.
    With nothing can the Japanese reactionaries justify the history of Japan's invasion of Korea. So, they should opt to make sincere apology and compensation for it at an early date.