calendar>>February 17. 2013 Juch 102
Japanese Reactionaries Denounced for Coveting for Tok Islets
Pyongyang, February 17 (KCNA) -- Ichita Yamamoto, minister of territorial affairs of Japan, and Matsuda, chief of Okinoshima-cho in Shimane Prefecture of Japan, referred the Tok Islets issue to the government authorities in harsh tones. They said it was incomprehensible that an executive office for the issue of Tok Islets does not exist in the government, while justifying their acts by which they illegally "put the Tok Islets under the jurisdiction of Shimane Prefecture". They stressed the need to establish an office specializing in the Tok Islets issue in the Cabinet Office.

A bylined commentary of Rodong Sinmun Sunday says that this indicates that the moves of the Japanese reactionaries for grabbing Tok Islets have now gone beyond the limit and reached the phase of organized implementation. The news analyst goes on:

The Japanese reactionaries have so far kicked up a racket asserting Korea's territory as Japan's.

Now the denial of history and the moves for grabbing others' territories have become a trend in Japan. The Japanese reactionaries are denying the past crimes of Japan and hastening militarization of society, while using the issue of Tok Islets as an important means for inciting aggression, war and ultra-nationalism among Japanese people.

They intend to instill the unjustified "dominium over Tok Islets" into younger generations, incite militarism and provide social conditions for overseas aggression.

Their persistent territorial claim to Tok Islets will bring them a self-destruction.

The ultra-right forces of Japan should not resort to the moves for grabbing Tok Islets but redress the huge crimes of past committed against the Korean people.

The Japanese militarists will get nothing from its assertion of "dominium over Tok Islets".

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