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Japan Warned against Military Expansion

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, December 8 (KCNA) -- If the Japanese politicians are capable of looking far into the future with a sound way of thinking and political sense they should make soul-searching for the crimes Japan committed in the past, feel heavy responsibility for them and swim with the trend of the times as required by human conscience, 63 years after the outbreak of the Pacific War, observes Rodong Sinmun Wednesday in a signed article carried on the occasion. The Pacific War the Japanese imperialists launched under the slogan of the "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere" was a criminal war of aggression and plunder that brought unspeakable disasters and misfortune to the Koreans and other Asians, the article notes, and says:
    It has become a trend for those countries which committed crimes in the past to repent of and compensate for them. But, only Japan has not yet shown any change in its attitude toward the settlement of the past, doggedly evading it.
    The militaristic view of thinking and mode of action have persisted in Japan century after century. This clearly indicates that it still seeks to repeat the history of aggression, oblivious of a lesson taught by the war.
    Citing facts to disclose Japan's full-dressed moves to emerge a military giant for expansion overseas, the article goes on:
    The Koreans and other Asian people are well aware of the reactionary and dangerous nature of those moves of the Japanese militarist forces and are closely following them with high vigilance.
    Asia and the rest of the world today are no longer what they used to be in the past when the Japanese imperialists had made a mockery of the destinies of other countries and nations and trampled down upon them as they pleased, going on the rampage.
    Japan's overseas aggression will lead it to another defeat and that will make its resurrection quite impossible.
    The only way out for Japan in the new century is to fully redeem its crime-woven past, its historical commitment, at an early date and head for peace to get confidence of the international community.