Rodong Sinmun Wednesday says this in a by-lined article.

Japan would be well advised to opt for redressing its past crimes at an early date, clearly understanding the anti-Japanese feelings and will of the Korean people.

Japan is persistently denying and distorting its crime-woven past far from feeling a pang of conscience for its inglorious past issues with guilty conscience. Not content with this, it is impudently shunning the settlement of its past crimes, groundlessly whitewashing and justifying them.

Whenever the international community is becoming vocal criticizing cunning Japan for refusing to honestly repent of its past wrongs and sincerely implement its commitment to liquidating them, it is employing sleight of hand to paint it as "victim".

What Japan committed in the past is the hideous crimes perpetrated against humanity which can never be written off no matter how much water may flow under the bridge and no matter how often a generation is replaced by another.

It is ethics and morality and international usage for a criminal to feel accountable for what it did, repent and atone for it.