Rodong Sinmun Thursday observes this in a signed commentary.

It goes on: Lurking behind the reckless remarks made by the Tokyo governor who is a typical icon of the ultra-right elements of Japan, and the action taken by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to justify the Japanese imperialists' bloody aggression and colonial rule over Korea and other Asian countries are very sinister and dangerous aims to write off their crimes recorded in their history and infuse the departed soul of the militarists into the younger generation in a bid to realize the ambition for "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere" without fail.

The south Korean ruling quarters, a group of sycophants serving Japan, who do not have even an iota of national self-respect and soul, make no scruple of selling off the interests of the nation, defending those dangerous moves, instead of taking issue with them.

The Japanese militarist forces who seek reinvasion, debasing the history of the Korean nation and whitewashing the crime-woven history and the Lee group selling off the dignity and interests of the nation and working hard to do harm to fellow countrymen in reliance upon them are the reactionaries of history in the same boat.

If the traitors are allowed to remain within the nation, they will do harm to the dignity and interests of the nation and it will be impossible for the whole nation to protect even their inviolable territory and it will not be able to escape horrible disasters in the end.

All the Koreans will surely force Japan to pay for the crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists in the past in order to protect the dignity of the nation. They will strictly settle accounts with the Japanese reactionaries, their sworn enemy, for their moves for reinvasion and with the Lee group for encouraging them in these moves to serve Japan.