Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun Wednesday observes: This is, in fact, an unpardonable act of treachery as it is aimed at conniving at the Japanese reactionaries' distortion of history and covering up the shuddering crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists against the Korean people.

The Japanese imperialists' history of aggression and their colonial rule over Korea was the harshest and most brutal one in history. However, the Japanese reactionaries are now working with bloodshot eyes to whitewash and cover up at any cost the crimes committed by Japan in the past, refusing even to admit them and dodging apology and reparation for them.

They are becoming so shameless as to paint evil doings as good ones and an assailant as a victim. This, in essence, amounts to a prelude to reinvasion.

This being a hard reality, Lee is so keen on serving Japan that he is working hard to gloss over the Japanese reactionaries' moves to make a retrogressive revision of history textbooks.

The successive rulers of south Korea were without exception pro-Japanese lackeys. But there has been no such wicked traitor as Lee who has perpetrated the treacherous act of covering up even the crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists in the past for the sake of "developing the relations" with Japan.

Lee is putting the five traitors of 1905 into the shade as he is acting a guide for his Japanese master in the moves to stage a comeback to Korea, kowtowing to him, bereft of even an iota of national self-respect.

The traitor cannot escape judgment of the nation. History is sure to bring him to his grave.