calendar>>July 5. 2015 Juche 104

Japan Urged to Admit and Apologize for Its Crimes of Aggression

Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- The Council for the Solution of the Issue of the Volunteers Corps in south Korea and the Washington Committee for the Solution of the Issue of the Volunteers Corps, an organization of Koreans in the U.S., held a Wednesday rally outside the Japanese embassy in the U.S. on July 1 at which they demanded the Japanese authorities admit and apologize for Japan's past crimes of aggression, according to Yonhap News of south Korea.

South Korean woman Kim Pok Dong, a victim of the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army, condemned the Japanese government for forcing young girls into sexual slavery. She urged Japan to liquidate the past crimes.

Then, organizations in a statement demanded Japan make sincere reflection and apology for the history of aggression.

The participants handed over a written protest to the Japanese embassy, saying they would launch an international action to make Japan liquidate the past crimes.