Japan urged to drop its anti-DPRK hostile policy
KCNA
Pyongyang, April 3 (KCNA) -- A DPRK delegate addressing the 59th meeting of the U.N. commission on human rights during its discussion of its agenda item 6 "racial discrimination" on March 25 said that Japan pursued the harshest policy of national discrimination and obliteration in the world history of colonialism, adding that this crime against humanity can never be covered or erased.
The Korean people had suffered untold hardships for over four decades of Japan's military occupation since early in the 20th century, he stressed, and went on:
In this period the Korean people were deprived of their right to enjoy their national culture and tradition and even their names and were not allowed to use their mother tongue.
At least 8.4 million Koreans were pressganged into the army or forced to do slave labor and more than a million of them were killed in cold blood.
At least 200,000 Korean women were forced to provide sex to the imperial Japanese army as "comfort women."
It is a lesson taught by history that such country as Japan which tries to justify its serious human rights abuses, shunning the settlement of its past, is bound to repeat such crime any time.
Japan should give up its anachronistic hostile policy toward the DPRK, a signatory to the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration, and take actions to fulfil its promise and put an apology made to the Korean people into practice.
