Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun Wednesday says what he uttered was not prompted by his gaffe or lack of knowledge.

The victims of the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army were not victims of "flesh traffic" but those of the sexual slavery enforced by the Japanese imperialists in a systematic and organized manner with government and military power involved, the commentary notes, and goes on:

This is a stark historic fact and a hideous crime against humanity which can neither be concealed nor written off.

The chief executive of Japan is working hard to deny and gloss over its past history and evade the blame for it by crafty wordplay.

What matters is that it has become the general trend of the Japanese society to deny and tamper with history. The political and public circles are vying with each other to distort history. They are imbuing the younger generation with outlook on the distorted history.

Japan's moves to deny and distort history are not a simple academic issue. It is a sensitive political issue of whether Japan admits its past crimes or not and whether it has the will to reflect on its past crime-woven history and liquidate it or not. Nevertheless, it persistently refuses to admit its crimes, desperately trying to evade the blame for its past wrongdoings.

It is the ulterior aim of Japan to repeat its past crime-woven history.