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Japan Urged to Redeem Its Past: Rodong Sinmun
Pyongyang, August 15 (KCNA) -- Japan is under obligation as a defeated country to make a sincere apology to the Korean people and redeem its past in view of ethics, morality and international law, says Rodong Sinmun Thursday in an article.

It cites facts to prove that Japan has taken a wrong road, far from fulfilling its legal, moral and international obligation:

The Japanese reactionaries flock to the Yasukuni Shrine and justify the sexual slavery crime committed by the Imperial Japanese Army and the history of aggression.

This can not be tolerated as it is a criminal act challenging the conscience of humankind and justice of history. It is quite natural that the world public is becoming vocal, protesting and censuring it.

However, visit to the Yasukuni Shrine has been formalized, regularized and popularized in Japan. It is as clear as a pikestaff which way the rising generation of Japan will take in the future as it is living in society where history of aggression is embellished and war criminal has become the social trend of times.

The Japanese reactionaries are persistently denying the past crimes in a bid to revenge its past defeat by realizing its ambition of overseas invasion and the old dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" at any cost.

They are agitating invasion, war and ultra-nationalism while stepping up the militarization of society.

Japan should face up to the situation and fulfill its legal, moral and international obligation in redeeming its past.

It should bear in mind that it will meet again a bitter defeat like the one it suffered 68 years ago if it keeps to militarization, far from redeeming the past.

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