Rodong Sinmun Friday observes in this regard:

The Japanese government revised these ordinances in 1960 and 1968 but left intact the article which said that Tok Islet shall be excluded from Japan's archipelago.

These data of legal validity clearly prove that Japan is left with no justification to claim dominium over Tok Islet in view of domestic law of Japan and it is a height of hooliganism for Japan to persistently assert that the islet belongs to it. The assertion is, in the final analysis, prompted by its black-hearted intention to spark off territorial disputes and thus invent a pretext for launching reinvasion.

As for the issue of the relations between Korea and Japan over the dominium over Tok Islet, it is an issue for Japan to make reparation to the DPRK for the crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists by invading Korea and grabbing Tok Islet in the past.

The Japanese ruling quarters and paid historians are persistently asserting that Tok Islet belongs to Japan based on groundless "data" while working hard to destroy historical evidence proving truth. This will only bring into bolder relief the true nature of Japan as the most shameless robber of the territory of other country.

Japan is giving eye-teeth for the inviolable territory of Korea but it will get it nowhere and bring no benefit to it.

The Korean nation is heightening vigilance against Japan's evermore undisguised moves to grab Tok Islet and is keeping itself fully ready to resolutely smash them.

Japan would be well advised to properly understand who its rival is and drop its ambition to grab Tok Islet.