calendar>>December 24. 2014 Juche 103

With No Rhetoric Can Japan Deny Sexual Slavery: Minju Joson

Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- Some days ago the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives reportedly said that history had evident records on the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army, adding that the Japanese government's denial of the coercion involved in recruiting "comfort women" was just the same as the Nazis' denial of Holocaust.

Commenting on this, Minju Joson Wednesday says this is a common view of the international community that Japan's sexual slavery was a hard fact and as hideous as the Nazis' Holocaust.

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Even a political heavyweight in the U.S. took a negative approach towards Japan's wrong attitude towards the past crimes, suggesting a lot of things.

It is self-evident that as long as Japan wrongly approaches its past crimes, the international community will become increasingly critical of it and it will find itself in a more difficult position.

Japan should bear this in mind.

Japan's attitude towards the past crimes is not merely a matter of history but an issue directly related to its destiny.

Japan is denying both its destiny and future by denying its crime-woven history and past.

Japan would be well advised to stop such a foolish act.