Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- 10th Asian solidarity meeting for settling the issue of comfort women for the Imperial Japanese Army was held in Seoul from August 12 to 14.

Report and speeches were made at the meeting.

A resolution adopted there said the Japanese government should formally admit and apologize for the criminal fact that the Imperial Japanese Army had took away women from Asian-Pacific region and forced them into the sexual slavery from the 1930s till its defeat.

To this end, the Japanese government should open all documents related to the issue of comfort women to the public and probe the truth. The Japanese Diet should institute a special law on Japan's apology and reparation at an early date, it urged.

Whatever violent words and acts on the part of Japan to deny the comfort women issue should not be tolerated, it noted.

The participants announced their action plan.

It said they would wage resolute struggle against the Japanese government and Diet to make them institute a law on Japan's earlier formal apology and reparation.

They would wage strong solidarity actions with the world civic organizations as an immediate step with the 1000th Wednesday rally for the solution of the comfort women issue due on December 14 this year as an occasion, it noted.

It urged the need to build the international opinion critical of the Japanese government. It also called on all the Asian countries to continue support for the victims.

They would teach right history to the upcoming generations in the future, it stressed.