Sophistry of political dwarfs berated
Pyongyang, January 25 (KCNA) -- Takami Eto, member of the House of Representative from the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, recently passed strictures on the fact that Prime Minister Koizumi apologized for the past crimes of Japan during his visit to the DPRK last year and described the international criticism of Koizumi's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine as intervention in the internal affairs of Japan. His remarks are a gross distortion of historical facts and blasphemy against the Korean people and human conscience, says Rodong Sinmun in a bylined commentary today.The news analyst goes on:
Unreasonable remarks made by Japan's conservative politicos as regards the apology and compensation for its past crimes as well as the visit to the shrine reveal with added clarity their evil conscience and the true colors as militarists.
Imperial Japan illegally occupied Korea by force of arms and imposed heart-breaking sufferings upon the Koreans for more than four decades of its colonial rule.
Denial of the DPRK's demands for Japan's liquidation of the past is little short of the distortion and denial of history and call for the repetition of history of aggression. Eto's remarks prove to what extent the Japanese reactionaries' militarist outlook and stand on history have gone. They provide clear evidence of their deep-seated hostility against Korea.
The Japanese chief executive's visit to the shrine is little short of tearing up the wounds of the Asian people still left unhealed and beautifying and defending the Japanese imperialists' crimes of aggression. The visit to the shrine by the Japanese ruling quarters is not an internal affair of Japan but a sensitive political and historical problem of international nature related to the past and present of the Asian people. The Japanese reactionaries deserve punishment for their denial of history, distortion of facts and challenge to human conscience.
