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Japan Urged to Swim with Global Trend

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- It has become a global trend to strive to redress wrongs committed against humankind in the past, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article. Urging Japan to redeem its past as early as possible, the article continues: Germany is making efforts for a full settlement of the issue of compensation. But quite contrary to it, Japan has persistently evaded its responsibility to apologize and compensate for the crimes it committed in the last century.
    After illegally occupying Korea early in the 20th century the Japanese imperialists committed such extra-large crimes against humanity as kidnapping and forcibly drafting more than 8.4 million young and middle-aged Koreans for inhuman slave labor, killing at least one million Koreans and forcing 200,000 Korean women into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army. It is legal and moral obligations for Japan, the assailant, to admit its responsibility for its past crimes and make apology and compensation to the Koreans, the victim. However, Japan fails to sincerely approach the issue of redeeming its past wrongs until now although more than half a century has passed since its defeat.
    Not a few countries committed aggression and war crimes in the 20th century, but there is no country which behaves so meanly and brazenly as Japan.
    The core issue in improving relations between the DPRK and Japan is latter's redressing its past crimes.
    If Japan truly wants to cut the political Gordian knot ingrained between the two countries and have good relationship and enjoy co-existence and co-prosperity with the DPRK, it should redeem its past crimes at an early date, probing the truth behind the crimes committed by Japan in the past and making sincere apology and compensation for them.