Japan has not made honest apology and reparation for the enforcement of the 40 odd year-long most barbarous colonial fascist repressive rule and the hideous crimes, including the issue of the "comfort women" for the Imperial Japanese Army, it committed after "legalizing" its military occupation of Korea through the fabrication of the "Korea-Japan Annexation Treaty" and other treaties for aggression, the letter said, and went on:

The statement issued by the present Japanese prime minister on the lapse of a century since the fabrication of the said treaty is another mockery and an act of deceiving the Korean nation as it was a half apology which excluded the northern half of Korea, an apology little short of an empty talk devoid of full reparation and a hypocritical apology, as evidenced by Japan's ceaseless distortion of history, its "claim" to Tok Islets and allowance of the policy of national discrimination against Koreans in Japan.

The war criminal states of Europe are striving to make an honest apology and reparation for such past crimes as inflicting unspeakable misfortune and sufferings upon humankind during World War II. Japan, however, has behaved quite contrary to this. We are of the view that this shows the political and moral backwardness of Japan and runs counter to its interests and security.

We strongly urge all political parties of Japan to fulfill their due historic and moral responsibility and role in making an honest apology and full reparation for the thrice-cursed crimes committed by Japan against the Korean nation in the past and in developing the ties with its neighboring countries in a future-oriented manner in keeping with the requirements of the present times and the common desire of humankind for peace.