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Japan's Reparation for Past Crimes Demanded
Pyongyang, February 12 (KCNA) -- The General Federation of Organizations of Victims of Japanese Imperialism and the Citizens Council with Grand Mothers of "the Volunteers Corps" of south Korea and civic organizations of Japan called a joint press conference in Seoul on Feb. 8 demanding Japan make apology and reparation for its past crimes.

At the press conference speakers accused the Japanese authorities of deciding to pay 99 yen at most to the victims to the sexual slavery of comfort women for the Imperial Japanese Army under the pretext of allowance for the withdrawal of welfare pension and having refused to make reparation to the victims of "drafting."

They condemned the Japanese authorities for having failed to liquidate the crimes committed by Japan till now though this year, 100 years after the fabrication of the brigandish "Korea-Japan Annexation Treaty".

They accused Japan of perpetrating such disgraceful act as misinterpreting the issue of "claim", the issue of Tok Islets, etc. so deliberately that they may remain hardly understandable while reluctantly opening to the public the documents related to the south Korea-Japan "agreement" signed in 1965, in particular.

This is little short of expressing Japan's intention not to admit its past aggression, they noted, urging Japan to open to the public all of the said documents and make apology and reparation for its past crimes though belatedly.

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