Rodong Sinmun Monday says in a signed commentary in this regard: The perpetrators of the crimes against humanity are destined to face judgment of history and meet a miserable end any time.

Recalling that the Japanese imperialists committed hideous crimes against humanity by enforcing the darkest colonial fascist rule in history over Korea for almost half a century and brutally suppressing and killing Koreans, the commentary notes: Japan can never evade the blame for the crimes committed by it against humanity in the past as the statute of limitation is not applicable to these crimes under international law.

It goes on:

History records not a few perpetrators of the above-said crimes but no country has made such desperate efforts to evade the responsibility for crimes, refusing to admit and reflect on them, like Japan.

Japan has run the whole gamut of mean and brazen-faced tricks to keep the hideous crimes committed against humanity buried into oblivion in utter disregard of law, ethics and morality.

Japan now finds itself in a bottomless abyss of international isolation after being censured by the world public for persistently denying the above-said crimes against humanity and perpetrating rash acts to go without liquidating its crimes.

Japan will neither win public support nor get international confidence nor will have any future unless it redeems its past crimes against humanity.

The army and people of the DPRK will never forget those crimes of Japan no matter how much water flows under the bridge and no matter how often generations are replaced by new ones. They will certainly force Japan to pay for the blood shed by the Koreans to the last.

History will surely mete out a stern judgment to Japan for the above-said crimes.