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North-South Exhibition Held

KCNA

    Pyongyang, February 25 (KCNA) -- The north-south joint exhibition demanding the return of cultural treasures looted by the Japanese imperialists was held at the Korean Art Gallery on Wednesday. Displayed at the joint exhibition were photos showing some of precious cultural treasures of the Korean nation looted by the Japanese imperialists in the past and fine art pieces regained from Japan.
    At the exhibition the reporters and speakers of the north and the south vehemently denounced the unprecedented vandalism and looting of Korean cultural treasures perpetrated by the Japanese imperialists as a crime against civilization and humankind and thrice-cursed barbarism as they were intended to obliterate the Korean nation's time-honored history and its national identity and destroy human civilization.
    It is a legal and moral duty of Japan to return cultural treasures it looted in Korea in view of the requirements of international law, its responsibility before history and from political and moral points of view, they noted.
    A joint resolution was released in the name of the participants in the north-south symposium on the wrong designation of the East Sea of Korea as the Japanese Sea and the north-south joint exhibition demanding the return of cultural treasures looted by the Japanese imperialists and a letter to the director general of UNESCO was adopted at the exhibition.
    The resolution noted that the scholars in the north and the south and personages from different social standings would make every possible effort to make all other Koreans join them in their endeavors to regain cultural treasures Japan looted from Korea and preserve the designation of the sea between Korea and Japan as the East Sea of Korea.
    Considering it as part of the noble cause to protect the dignity and the sovereignty of the nation for the scholars in the north and the south and figures from different social standings to set right the national history and recover its cultural treasures, the resolution called for forming a consultative council of historians of the north and the south and waging this movement by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation.
    Present at the exhibition were personages in science, education, culture and other fields in the north and the south, teachers, researchers, officials concerned and people from all walks of life.