Japan has no qualification to talk about the human rights of the DPRK, Rodong Sinmun says, and goes on:

Japan is the sworn enemy of the Korean nation as it perpetrated unpardonable crimes by ruthlessly violating the rights of the Koreans from early in the past century just as much as the U.S. did.

The heinous unethical crimes committed by Japan in the past including sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army and forcible drafting of Koreans are bringing into bolder relief the moral vulgarity of the Japanese reactionaries.

It has recently been disclosed that the Japanese imperialists mobilized young boys and girls to forced labor under the plea of "juvenile service group" during their occupation of Korea, inhuman atrocities, only to lash the army and people of the DPRK into a great fury.

Such being a hard fact, Japan has talked about the human rights of the DPRK as a shock brigade of the U.S. in its "human rights" racket against the DPRK. This is nonsensical and just like the guilty party filing the suit first.

The Japanese reactionaries had better realize that if they continue acting as now without principle, it will disappear from the earth, not just remaining a near yet distant country.

Minju Joson says if Japan wants to take part in the international discussion of human rights, it will have to honestly admit its crime-woven history such as human rights abuses before anything else and make an apology and reparation to the Korean people.