An adviser to Abe for diplomatic policy made such nonsense that the "Kono statement" was a diplomatic gaffe of Japan in the past. He even said that internationalizing the sexual slavery issue will make Japan, a defeated nation, stand isolated and it is necessary to make it clear that there has not existed the sexual slavery issue when giving education to locals.

Rodong Sinmun Tuesday in a bylined article brands his remarks as an intolerable insult to justice and human ethics, and an act of going against history that is aimed to ignore the war crimes.

The Japanese reactionaries' acts of denying blood-stained war crimes committed by the previous generation are an act aimed to revive militarism and make the past history of aggression repeat itself, the article says, and goes on:

The majority of those holding important posts of the present government in Japan are steeped in revanchist and militaristic idea for aggression. They are preoccupied with the idea of how to realize the dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere" which Japan failed to put into a reality in the past.

The new Cabinet of Japan with ultra-right tendency plans to reorganize the "Self-Defence Forces" into "national defence forces" and retrogressively revise the present constitution to provide legislation for exercising the right to collective self-defence, while loudly calling for beefing up the defence capabilities.

Japan is whetting a sword to avenge its defeat in the war, far from feeling responsibility for the past crimes of aggression. "Peace" shouted by Japan is just a call for reinvasion and a war ballad.

The revival of militarism will never lead Japan to a "normal state" as often claimed by Abe. It will, instead, lead Japan to destruction.

Those who run headlong into a war while denying history will never be able to evade punishment and destruction, warns the article.