Japanese Thrice-Cursed Crimes under Fire

Pyongyang, August  15 (KCNA)  -- A  spokesperson for  the Association  of Korean Victims of Forcible Drafting and Their Bereaved Families made public a statement  Thursday,  seventy four  years since  the Japanese  imperialists sustained  a  defeat  after  being  sternly  judged   by  history  for  launching overseas  aggression  with  the blood-stained  "flag  of  rising  sun  shedding rays" flying.

The statement  said that no matter  how much water  may flow under  the bridge, the DPRK will never forget the heinous crimes committed by Japan.

It went on:

We can not but emphasize that the Japanese imperialists dragged about 8 400 000  Korean young and  middle-aged people to  the sites of  the war for overseas aggression  and hard-work  sites in  order to invade  the continent, compelled 200  000  Korean women  to suffer  the miserable  fate as  sexual slaves for the Imperial  Japanese Army and mercilessly killed  more than one million people.

This  being a  hard fact,  the  Japanese government  is  leaving no  means untried to  evade the  responsibility for  the settlement  of its  past, far  from sincerely admitting  all the  crimes committed  by Japan  against the  Korean people and reflecting on them.

It is also rushing  headlong into militarism in order to  realize its daydream about  the  "Greater   East  Asia  Co-Prosperity  Sphere"   by  describing  the heinous  killers as  "heroes"  and  imbuing the  rising  generation with  ultra-nationalism  while  groundlessly  beautifying  and   justifying  the  history  of crimes.

The  horrible  climate   of  the  Japanese  society  affected   by  the  harsh whirlwind of  national chauvinism  and hostile policy  towards the  DPRK and the General  Association of Korean  Residents in Japan  reminds everyone of the  days  when  the   Japanese  imperialists  embarked  upon  the   road  of invading Korea with sharp military swords a century ago.

All the  Korean victims of Japan's  past crimes and  their bereaved families sharply  denounce  with bitter  resentment  the  arrogant  and  anachronistic behaviors  of  Japan  which  is   running  amuck  to  realize  its  ambition  to reinvade the  Korean Peninsula  while going  against the  trend of  the times without any guilty conscience of its past crimes.

Japan's settlement of the past is not an issue which may be settled or not, but is  the moral duty  of the  Japanese government under  international law and historical  and bounden state  duty that must  be fulfilled even  after the replacement of generations.

The longer  the Japanese  government evades  the settlement of  its past, the greater  the national  anger of  our people  will become  beyond control, and it will have to pay dearly for it.