Rodong Sinmun on Wednesday observes in a bylined commentary in this regard:

Such nonsense can be talked only by the narrow-minded guys keen to evade the responsibility for their past crimes at any cost.

At the recent meeting several representatives including the one from Netherlands strongly censured the Japanese reactionaries' despicable behavior of denying the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army.

The Japanese authorities seem to be embarrassed by this criticism but they ought to know how things are going on in this world if they have normal thinking power.

It has become an international trend for those countries which committed wrongs in the past to honestly reflect on them and make apology and reparation for them.

The above-said sexual slavery is a hideous crime against humanity. No statute of limitation is applicable to this crime.

The Japanese authorities have persistently shunned admittance to the crime and apology and reparation for it, even suffering the disgrace of being called a state bereft of morality. This is insult and mockery at international law, ethics and morality, justice and human conscience.

No morality will be guaranteed to Japan in the future unless it settles its past human rights abuses. Its refusal to admit its past crimes cannot be interpreted otherwise than its intention to repeat them in the future, too.

It is elementary morality and due obligation for Japan to honestly admit and make an apology and reparation for its past crimes.

The Japanese reactionaries should behave themselves, well aware that it is a political and moral issue and an obligation under international law for making clean their besmirched conscience to redress the human rights abuses committed by Japan in the past.