Among the victims were many Koreans. They have lambasted Japan for refusing to admit its responsibility for their misfortune and make apology and compensation.

The Korean victims are those forcibly brought to Hiroshima, Nagasaki and other places of Japan for slave labor during the period of the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule and their descendants.

Pyon Kap Ok, a 73-year-old woman who lives in Pyongyang, told KCNA:

A few days after Hiroshima was hit by an A-bomb on August 6, 1945 the lower half of my body began to be swollen and I felt a high fever, headache and nausea.

After returning to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea I was hospitalized for paraplegia for 14 months. Though sixty-five years has elapsed, I have still been gnawed by pain with my legs always swollen and bloody pus oozing out from skin.

My son, who had long been harassed by headache and skin disease since his birth, died from meningitis three years ago.

Another victim U Chun Mi, a 65-year-old resident in Pyongyang, said:

I suffered injury from an A-bomb when I was four months old.

Later, I have been troubled with such diseases as asthma, laryngitis, gastroptosis, colitis and then poor function of liver.

When I returned to the motherland in 1961, I wanted to work hard for it but I couldn't do so because of my diseases.

I have a son and a daughter but they have been afflicted with dermatitis from their childhood.

It was due to Japan's forcible draft that Koreans, nonbelligerent with the United States, were victimized by it's A-bombs.

Japan is obliged to apologize to the Korean victims and take necessary measures for their treatment.