It goes on:

Had Japan honestly admitted the crimes it perpetrated in the past against the Korean people, made an apology and reparation for them, its relations with the DPRK would have already been normalized.

Far from redeeming its past, Japan is rubbing salt into the wounds of the Korean people, as evidenced by its shameless bid to have its industrial establishments in the modern times registered as world cultural heritage. Koreans bear the towering grudge toward those facilities.

Japan's move to showcase such places as "pride of Japan" and have them under the protection of humankind is, indeed, another unbearable insult to the Korean nation.

Lurking behind its move to do so, far from reflecting on its past history this year marking 70 years since its defeat, is a cynical ploy to persistently deny its past crime-woven history, embellish it as the one that contributed to the development of human culture, completely erase the traces of crimes and thus evade its responsibility for redeeming its past crimes.