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KCNA Slams Japan's Dangerous Move to Revive Militarism

KCNA

    Pyongyang, January 4 (KCNA) -- The chief executive of Japan reportedly visited the "Yasukuni shrine" on Jan. 1 and paid "homage" to the departed soul of militarists. This was his fourth visit to the shrine since his assumption of office in April 2001. This indicates that he is persistently pursuing his invariable reactionary and ultra-right militarist policy.
    As already known, entombed in the shrine are millions of those who died in the aggressive wars from the time before the sino-Japanese war to the Second World War.
    Interred on the altar of the shrine are remains of special-class war criminals including Hideki Tojo, the boss of Japanese militarism who ignited and commanded the Pacific war. Displayed in its court are artillery pieces, torpedoes and other weapons used by Japanese imperialists during the aggressive wars. Exhibitions are taking place in the hall one after another to agitate a war.
    It is not hard to guess what is sought by visits to the shrine aimed to embellish the blood-stained past history of aggression.
    The chief executive of Japan at a press conference held on October 8 last year disclosed his intention to continue to visit the shrine, saying that it was not for the sake of militarism but it was quite natural.
    His visit to the shrine on the New Year's day was a revelation of Japan's reckless attempt to step up in real earnest the moves for its conversion into a military power and overseas expansion this year.
    By putting visits to the shrine on a legitimate and regular basis the Japanese reactionaries seek to lay an ideological foundation for Japan's militarization and create an atmosphere more favorable for overseas aggression.
    They are rushing headlong into reinvasion, far from honestly redeeming Japan's past wrongdoings. This is a challenge to the justice and conscience of the Korean and other people of the world and a grave perfidy to the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration.
    The Korean people will never remain a passive onlooker to the criminal moves escalated by the Japanese reactionaries to revive militarism and realize overseas expansion, refusing to liquidate Japan's past, quite contrary to the spirit of the Pyongyang declaration.