Rodong Sinmun Saturday says this in an article, and goes on:

Japan committed hideous crimes against the Korean people in the past.

The Japanese imperialists forcibly drafted and abducted millions of Koreans and used them as cannon fodder in the war and drove them into slave labor sites like beasts of burden, brutally killed more than one million Koreans and forced 200 000 Korean women into sexual slavery.

The forcible drafting and abduction committed by the Japanese imperialists were state-organized bestial atrocities. They were reminiscent of "slave hunt" in the medieval period in terms of their scale, means and methods involved.

They impudently worked hard to deprive the Koreans of their mother tongue and names and made no scruple of vandalizing and looting a lot of precious cultural treasures at random.

They committed too many crimes to enumerate.

Perpetrators of crimes should repent of them and try hard to redress them. This is the requirement of the international community and the trend of the times.