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Fri, 11/19/2010 - 17:40
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NKorea media launch anti-Japan campaign demanding compensations
PYONGYANG, November 19 (Itar-Tass) - North Korean media have launched a large-scale anti-Japanese propaganda campaign, demanding from Tokyo apologies and compensations for atrocious crimes of the past.
The leading party newspaper Rodong Shinmun, the Korean Central News Agency, the government Minju Choson newspaper, experts from the Academy of Sciences and other governmental, public and scientific organisations take part in the campaign.
The Rodong Shinmun noted on Friday that 100 years ago, Japan rudely fabricated the so-called Annexation Treaty and other documents practically establishing Japanese protectorate, which five years later resulted in the occupation of the whole Korean peninsula.
As a result, "the Japanese authorities created in Korea colonial rule, while its citizens found themselves in the situation of slaves," the newspaper stressed.
It emphasized that Japanese imperialists "are bitter enemies of the Korean nation". Japan's attempts to justify its criminal past only strengthen Korean's determination "to reckon with it".
"Ruthless and mass annihilation of its residents became the gravest crime of Japanese aggressors, who had imposed a fascist regime in Korea".
KCNA said that patriotically minded Koreans who sought national
independence and participated in anti-Japanese fight were to be
annihilated.
Those who spoke in favour of the observance of most
elementary rights of Koreans were arrested and tortured.
On the whole, from 1910 to 1945 the Japanese authorities took off the country by force for slave labour over 8.4 million Koreans, who were even not allowed to speak their own language. About one million of them died.
Besides, in the 1930-1940s about 200,000 Korean women were mobilized by force for sex with Japanese soldiers and officers.
"The damage caused to Korea during the Japanese occupation is incalculable," the news agency stressed.
It warned that the people and army of North Korea "are resolute to
make Japan pay for its past crimes".
Tokyo "must apologise for the crimes during the period of colonial rule in Korea and pay a compensation," KCNA wrote.
The North Korean Foreign Ministry says "Japan must abandon attempts to rewrite history and revive militarism, and it also must stop hostile policy against the DPRK".
The Foreign Ministry demands from Tokyo to abandon Tokyo's unjustified claims for a small group of Tokto islands.
North Korean diplomats say that only by fulfilling these demands, Japan "will be able to make contribution to the strengthening of peace and stability in the region, as well as ensure its own security".
The leading party newspaper Rodong Shinmun, the Korean Central News Agency, the government Minju Choson newspaper, experts from the Academy of Sciences and other governmental, public and scientific organisations take part in the campaign.
The Rodong Shinmun noted on Friday that 100 years ago, Japan rudely fabricated the so-called Annexation Treaty and other documents practically establishing Japanese protectorate, which five years later resulted in the occupation of the whole Korean peninsula.
As a result, "the Japanese authorities created in Korea colonial rule, while its citizens found themselves in the situation of slaves," the newspaper stressed.
It emphasized that Japanese imperialists "are bitter enemies of the Korean nation". Japan's attempts to justify its criminal past only strengthen Korean's determination "to reckon with it".
"Ruthless and mass annihilation of its residents became the gravest crime of Japanese aggressors, who had imposed a fascist regime in Korea".
KCNA said that patriotically minded Koreans who sought national
independence and participated in anti-Japanese fight were to be
annihilated.
Those who spoke in favour of the observance of most
elementary rights of Koreans were arrested and tortured.
On the whole, from 1910 to 1945 the Japanese authorities took off the country by force for slave labour over 8.4 million Koreans, who were even not allowed to speak their own language. About one million of them died.
Besides, in the 1930-1940s about 200,000 Korean women were mobilized by force for sex with Japanese soldiers and officers.
"The damage caused to Korea during the Japanese occupation is incalculable," the news agency stressed.
It warned that the people and army of North Korea "are resolute to
make Japan pay for its past crimes".
Tokyo "must apologise for the crimes during the period of colonial rule in Korea and pay a compensation," KCNA wrote.
The North Korean Foreign Ministry says "Japan must abandon attempts to rewrite history and revive militarism, and it also must stop hostile policy against the DPRK".
The Foreign Ministry demands from Tokyo to abandon Tokyo's unjustified claims for a small group of Tokto islands.
North Korean diplomats say that only by fulfilling these demands, Japan "will be able to make contribution to the strengthening of peace and stability in the region, as well as ensure its own security".
