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

The above-said fact amounts to a very grave war crime and an unpardonable crime against humanity.

But for these maps, the land would not have been reduced to so awful debris and so many innocent peaceable civilians would not have been killed. If it were not for these maps, Korea would not have remained divided for more than half a century.

The landing operation in Inchon was carried out by the U.S. imperialists during the Korean War in accordance with the map provided by the Yamasaki Institution.

During the war Japan offered the U.S. imperialists its territory as logistic, supply and sortie bases for carrying out their war of aggression.

Using U.S. marine and air force bases in Okinawa and other parts of Japan its various type warships and fighters committed barbarous air raids and bombardments in Korea. Japan also dispatched military personnel to the Korean front to help the U.S. in its military operations.

The germ warfare perpetrated by the U.S. imperialists in Korea would have been unthinkable without the cooperation of Japanese experts on germ warfare.

The army and the people of the DPRK still remember well the criminal acts committed by Japan during the Korean War and their serious consequences. They have, at the same time, strictly keep tabs on the hideous war crimes committed by Japan against the DPRK.

If Japan takes part in the second Korean War to be ignited by the U.S. imperialists, the army and people of the DPRK will certainly force it to pay not only for the crimes committed by it in the past but for those perpetrated by it during the last Korean War and for what it will do in the second Korean War.