Minju Joson Wednesday observes in a signed commentary in this regard:

This is nothing but reckless remarks based on the view on commercial value peculiar to Japan that money is almighty. The issue of holding a responsible post at the UN is not the issue to be settled with money but a matter to be settled politically.

The responsible posts at the UN can be held only by those countries which have will and capability to fairly handle international problems in favor of the human cause of peace. However, Japan finds itself in an awkward position for having failed to properly solve its past problems, much less settling its problems at present and in future.

Japan is meanly behaving to gloss over its legal and moral responsibility in an effort to evade the accountability for the settlement of its past by hook or by crook though more than half a century has passed since its defeat. Nothing is more deplorable and unbearable than seeing Japan holding such a responsible post at the UN.

Now that Japan is only watching for a chance to seek a revenge for its defeat in the Second World War, it is as plain as a pikestaff that if a responsible post of the UN is given to Japan, it will be little short of encouraging it in its moves for overseas militarist aggression.

The attitude of the international community toward Japan will remain unchanged unless Japan totally breaks with its inglorious past by redeeming its past wrongs and emerges a new country desirous of world peace and international justice.

Japan would be well advised to settle its past, instead of becoming the laughing stock of others for seeking foolish aims.