Annual meeting held
KCNA
Pyongyang, March 2 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Measure Committee for Demanding Compensation to "Comfort Women" for the Japanese Army and the Victims of the Forcible Drafting held its annual meeting here Saturday.
At the meeting, chairwoman of the committee Hong Son Ok made a report, which was followed by speeches.
The reporter and speakers mentioned last year's vigorous work for the investigation into the crimes related to the "comfort women" for the Japanese army and the forcible drafting and labor and the international solidarity campaign urging Japan to liquidate its past crimes.
They recalled that the Japanese imperialists forcibly drafted more than 8.4 million Koreans for slave labor, sexual slavery for the army and the cannon fodders of war of aggression in the period from their ignition of the Sino-Japanese war to their defeat, and massacred many of them.
They went on:
Instead of making a sincere apology for the crimes against humankind, the Japanese reactionaries have left no stone unturned to conceal the truth behind the past crimes and distort history for more than half a century after the war.
Recently the Japanese right-wing reactionaries are kicking up frantic anti-DPRK racket over the Japanese "kidnapped".
Lurking behind it is an intention to nullify the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration, in which Japan promised to liquidate its past, and evade the liquidation of the past.
The meeting discussed measures to deepen the investigation into the Japanese imperialists' crimes against humankind and have closer contacts with victim nations in Asia and regional organizations concerned to denounce Japan for its past crimes and, as an immediate task, set up an international solidarity consultative organization at an early date for demanding Japan's liquidation of its past.
