The letter said that his statement was nothing but an artifice to evade the responsibility for the atrocities committed by the Japanese imperialists against the Korean people.

It went on:

The Japanese authorities have turned their faces away from making reparation for the past crimes. This goes to prove that they are still not admitting the aggression and plunder perpetrated against the Asian people in the past as crimes.

The claim of Japan, a defeated nation, to Tok Islets of Korea and Japan's evasion of reparation for its past crimes are part of the moves to revive its militarism and this attitude is arousing concern and protest from among the world progressives.

The letter strongly demanded that the Japanese authorities make an apology and reparation to the DPRK for such past crimes as the forcible drafting of Koreans and sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army.