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Japan Urged to Make Formal Apology

KCNA

    Pyongyang, November 11 (KCNA) -- The DPRK government proposes Japan to hold the DPRK-Japan inter-governmental talks at the earliest possible date to discuss the issue of compensating the Korean victims of human rights abuses so far investigated and confirmed, proceeding from the viewpoint that it is rather a humanitarian issue than a political issue to apologize and compensate the Korean people for human losses caused to them. A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry said this in a statement issued on Tuesday as regards the recently disclosed list of over 420,000 Korean victims, just a tiny part of those Koreans forcibly drafted during the Japanese imperialists' military occupation of Korea. The statement continues:
    The DPRK government strongly urges Japan to apologize and compensate all victims of hideous human rights abuses committed during its occupation and rule over Korea including suppression and massacre of Koreans due to their movement for independence and political and other reasons, forcible drafting, sexual slavery, tests on living bodies, forcible migration and deportation and forced change of Korean names into Japanese and their bereaved families. The normalization of the DPRK-Japan relations can never take place unless Japan compensates for the above-said human rights abuses.