He uttered that he refrained from paying a visit to "Yasukuni Shrine" during the tenure of office as prime minister because he made a "crucial decision to pave the road for the future" of Japan.

Rodong Sinmun Wednesday observes in a signed commentary in this regard:

Those who fell in actions for the "country" as claimed by Abe are those who met deaths while committing all sorts of shuddering atrocities in the wars of aggression against Korea and other Asian countries.

What Abe uttered is little short of blustering that a prime minister should make every possible effort to repeat the past history of aggression as the ruler and the commander of the armed forces.

His career can be called a model of the course of life covered by a militarist.

It was Abe that categorically denied the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army committed by the Japanese imperialists in the past and zealously supported the moves to delete or play down their crimes of aggression in the history textbooks. It was again Abe who incited militarism, highly praising the practices of hoisting "Hinomaru" and singing "Kimigayo" at schools.

It was none other than Abe who issued an instruction to abolish the measure to exempt the facilities related to the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan from taxes, the first of its kind in Japan's history, and kick up a wholesale campaign of suppression of Chongryon.

As long as ultra-right elements like Abe are allowed to strut about, whipping up militarism, Japan cannot become a pacifist state and they will drive the war chariot of militarism at a rapid tempo towards Asia.

No future is in store for those who are keen to turn back the wheel of history, agitating a war.

As long as such dregs of history as Abe are allowed to strut about, the Japanese people will be seized with increased uneasiness and the future of the country will get gloomier.