calendar>>May 1. 2009 Juche 98
Japanese Reactionaries' Visit to "Yasukuni Shrine" Flayed
Pyongyang, May 1 (KCNA) -- Japan has a legal and moral obligation to kneel down and make an apology and reparation for hideous crimes it committed against the Korean nation in the past, says Rodong Sinmun Friday in a signed commentary, stating that Japan has no justification whatsoever to evade them.

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The Japanese imperialists faked up, promulgated and enforced the "forest and fields survey act" on May 1, 1918. This is just one typical example of those crimes. The Japanese imperialists indiscriminately plundered Korea not only of its forest resources but also of underground and aquatic resources. And they looted or destroyed even cultural assets.

The Japanese reactionaries, however, are whitewashing them and running headlong into dangerous reinvasion, far from repenting of those thrice-cursed crimes even a bit.

The south Korean conservative authorities are cooperating with the Japanese reactionaries, far from protesting against their reckless moves for reinvasion. Lurking behind this is their sinister intention to hurt and stifle their fellow countrymen at any cost by escalating anti-DPRK confrontational racket in the worldwide scale through cooperation with the Japanese reactionaries in return for covering up the past crimes of Japan.

Japan is frantically kicking up the reckless racket to stage a comeback to Korea, instead of making an apology and reparation for those unpardonable crimes committed by Japan against the Korean people in the past. This is because such group of traitors as the Lee Myung Bak group is going on the rampage, supporting the Japanese reactionaries' moves for aggression, subservient to them.

The Japanese reactionaries should behave with discretion, clearly understanding the Korean people's strong and steadfast will to certainly settle accounts with Japan.

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