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KCNA Commentary Blasts Japanese Rightwing Element's Hysteria
Pyongyang, July 15 (KCNA) -- Ishihara, co-head of the Japan Restoration Party, talked such rubbish on Saturday as "stupid North Koreans set fire to Yasukuni Shrine."

This cannot but be a laughing stock of world people.

As far as Ishihara is concerned, he claims to be a representative of the ultra-right forces of Japan. He is a hysteric cursed and censured by the public at home and abroad for letting loose torrents of incoherent remarks.

It was this guy who was compelled to make an apology to the angry Japanese for describing the great quake which occurred in Japan a few years back as "a severe punishment." It was again this guy who was condemned by world people for painting 2008 Beijing Olympiad as "Berlin Olympiad in the era of Hitler."

What Ishihara uttered was so nonsensical that even a news service of Japan could not but deplore that he seemed to have misinterpreted the case that happened in December of 2011 in which a Chinese was suspected of setting fire to Yasukuni Shrine.

What matters is that his utterances could not be interpreted as ill-advised bravery to demonstrate his image.

Lurking behind his hysteric outbursts are his wrong understanding of history and his extreme national chauvinism.

Right-wing gangsters in various parts of Japan perpetrated shooting and arson sprees against institutions of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) and organized terror against Korean students in Japan in October of 2003. They went the lengths of hatching even a plot to justify the armed crackdown upon Chongryon by designating it as a target of application of "the law on prevention of subversive activities."

At a time when public inside and outside Japan became critical of it, Ishihara, governor of Tokyo Metropolis at that time, was shameless enough to justify "the 1910 Korea-Japan Annexation Treaty." He blustered that Japan did not invade Korea by force of arms but the Korean Peninsula was not stable because of division and, consequently, this required annexation to get help from Japanese with same race by the general will of the Koreans."

Referring to the International League which was created in the 1920s, he talked such rubbish beyond common sense that "nobody slandered Japan though the International League existed at that time."

Recently, Ishihara, referring to the issue of the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army, remarked in support of sophism let loose by Hashimoto, co-head of the Japan Restoration Party, that "sexual slavery for the army was necessary at that time" only to become a target of domestic and foreign public criticism.

This is inveterate outlook of the right-wing reactionaries of Japan including Ishihara on history and their invariable bitterness towards the DPRK.

The hostile policy and moves of the Japanese reactionaries against the DPRK are based on lies and fabrications and aimed at realizing their wild ambition for reinvasion.

They should bear in mind that their policy and scenario can never come true as they are based on national chauvinism and phobia about Koreans.

The ultra-right forces of Japan, dregs of the times, had better quit the political arena along with Ishihara whose days are numbered. This would do either Asia or Japan good.

Should they stick to the anachronistic hostile policy towards the DPRK, oblivious of this, they will only precipitate their political doom.

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