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Japanese Imperialists' Past Crimes Can Never Be Covered up: Rodong Sinmun
Pyongyang, March 1 (KCNA) -- Koreans and other people of the world will follow the attitude of Japan to the history of its past crimes and certainly settle accounts with it, says Rodong Sinmun on Sunday in an article.

It goes on:

Through the March 1 Popular Uprising in 1919 the world came to know that the Japanese imperialists committed hideous unethical crimes against the Korean nation, crimes so thrice-cursed that can hardly be settled despite the lapse of centuries.

The Japanese imperialist murderers quenched the uprising by brandishing such lethal weapons as sword, axe and bamboo spear.

Saying it is not "interesting" just to shoot and it is regrettable to use sword, they fastened limbs of Koreans to four cows or horses to dismember them to death and hung their necks and limbs from trees after cutting them with straw-cutter.

According to data available, more than 100 000 Koreans were mercilessly killed by the Japanese imperialists with the uprising as an occasion.

The Japanese imperialists walked away or abducted millions of Koreans during their occupation of Korea, used them as cannon fodder at battle-sites, hurled them into slave labor sites like beasts of burden, mercilessly killing more than one million of Koreans and forcing at least 200 000 Korean women into sexual slavery.

Japan is persistently resorting to despicable and brazen-faced act of tampering with history, far from feeling guilty conscience.

This can be interpreted that the brutality, the samurai nature and moral vulgarity of the murderers who massacred the Koreans during their occupation of Korea have been handed down to their descendents.

Though Japan makes desperate efforts to evade the responsibility for the past crimes, it can never deny truth and justice of history.

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