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UN Debate on Japan's Human Rights Abuses Called for

KCNA

    Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- Japan has evaded its moral and international responsibility for the hideous human rights abuses committed against the Korean people in the past though more than half a century has passed since the Japanese imperialists defeat. In this regard Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary says.
    International law has been violated and ignored and confidence in the United Nations damaged owing to the shamelessness and vulgarity of Japan. This international situation calls upon the UN to positively discuss and settle the human rights abuses committed by Japan before its foundation.
    This is, first of all, because Japan's forcible drafting and crimes related to "comfort women" for the imperial Japanese army in the past were crimes against humanity as they were in breach of Paragraph C of Article 6 of the rules of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal and Article 5 of the rules of the Tokyo International Far East Tribunal. Japan. Those crimes, therefore, can never escape the UN discussion. They should be taken up by the U.N. in the light of the statutory limitations under international law.
    The convention on the non-applicability of statutory limitations to war crimes and crimes against humankind, which was adopted at the UN General Assembly session on November 26, 1968, clearly stipulates that those limitations shall not be applied to crimes against humanity.
    Paragraph A of Article 17 of "Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance" which was adopted at the UN General Assembly session on December 18, 1992 stipulates that acts constituting enforced disappearance shall be considered as a continuing offence as long as the perpetrators continue to conceal the fate and the whereabouts of persons who have disappeared and these facts remain unclarified.
    The Japanese government is very uncooperative in confirming the forcible drafting committed by the Japanese imperialists in the past and fate and whereabouts of the victims. This should be considered as a continuing offence and, accordingly, relevant organizations of the UN should continue to discuss and settle Japan's forcible drafting and crimes related to the "comfort women" for the imperial Japanese army in the past till the day when the fate and whereabouts of those missing are confirmed.
    Japan's hideous human rights abuses including the forcible drafting in the past are crimes to be discussed and settled at the UN for their criminal nature, content, gravity and durability.
    The UN should take practical measures to immediately deal with and settle Japan's human rights abuses committed before its foundation.