JAPAN SHOULD ADMIT SEXUAL SLAVERY: KCNA COMMENTARY

Pyongyang, November  16 (KCNA)  -- Films dealing  with the  sexual slavery for  the Imperial  Japanese   Army  hit  the   silver  screen  at   an  international  film   festival  in Washington D.C.

The  first   film  festival  squarely  dealing   with  the  sexual   slavery  has  the  theme "wartime sexual abuses, unhealed wounds." Seeing  this, the  international  community realizes  that  the  settlement of  the  sexual slavery issue  still pending  in  the crime-woven  history of  Japan has  become a  serious question, the solution of which brooks no further delay.

The  sexual  slavery  is  the  heinous  inhuman  crime  which  was  perpetrated  by  the Japanese imperialists with the direct involvement of their government. Many Asian  women including 200  000 Korean  women were raped,  gang-raped and massacred by the  Japanese imperialists in  an organized way. Yet,  today's Japan fails to make an apology and reparation for it, still going with impunity.

Far from making  an apology for  the hideous past crimes  and reflecting on  them, the Japanese reactionaries are behaving so impudently, only to stun the public.

Worse still,  they are working  hard to  cover up the  information related  to the sexual slavery. Principal criminals involved  in the establishment and  operation of the sexual slavery system keep mum, not confessing their crimes.

A lot of classified documents detailing the  sexual slavery run by the military are kept in the  Ministry of Defense, Police  Agency, Ministry of  Health, Labor and Welfare  and Ministry of Finance of Japan.

The ruling quarters  of Japan are disallowing the  description of the fact in  the history textbooks while refusing to declassify the documents. The Abe regime  is talking rubbish  that there is  no information proving  the Japanese army's  forcible   drafting   of  comfort   women,  and   even   terms  the   sexual  slavery "volunteer service for making money."

However, the crime-woven history can be neither written off nor covered up. A  footage   proving   the  heinous   massacre  of   Korean   women  by   the  Japanese imperialists  kept in  the  U.S.  National  Archives was  opened  to  public  recently. And operational records  of the allied  forces dealing  with the gun-killings  of the  30 Korean women dating September 13, 1944 were declassified.

This being  a hard fact,  Japan desperately moves to  push under the  carpet the sexual slavery crime  and evade  the international  responsibility for it  only to  betray its  moral vulgarity.

Japan  should   honestly  apologize   and  atone   for  the   sexual   slavery,  instead   of disregarding the demand of the international community for  the settlement of the sexual slavery issue.

Everything will go uneasy for Japan if it fails to atone for its past crimes.