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Japan's Settlement of Past Crimes Is Only Option for Its Future: Rodong Sinmun
Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- Some days ago, at least 6 900 scholars of 16 organizations in Japan made public a joint statement demanding the government admit the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army. They called for a stop to tampering with history, asserting that politicians and media persons' irresponsible attitude toward the sexual slavery shows the world that Japan doesn't respect the human rights.

Rodong Sinmun Monday comments that this is a very just assertion.

Japan's past history is the one of crimes, a history of aggression and plunder which forced Asian people to shed so much blood, the paper notes, and goes on:

A guilty person should repent of his wrongdoing and apologize for it. It is ethics and morality, legal requirement and practice.

Prompted by them, Germany and other countries made apologies and reparation to the damaged countries, victims and bereaved families for their past wrongdoings.

However, Japan is the only country which has not yet admitted its past crimes for 70 years since its defeat, far from paying reparation.

What infuriates the world is Japan's attitude towards the sexual slavery.

Nowadays Japan is getting ever more undisguised in its moves to deny its past history including sexual slavery. Its chief executive is in the lead.

The aim sought by it is to repeat the bloody history by writing off its past crime-woven history and shunning reparation.

We would like to advise Japan once again that it will have no future unless it admits and makes apology and reparation for its past crimes.

Japan's liquidation of the past history is the only option to head for future, trusted by the international community.

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