Almost all those industrial establishments are the places where people of Korea and other Asian countries were forced to do mediaeval slave labor after being taken there.

Rodong Sinmun Wednesday observes in a commentary in this regard:

The World Heritage Committee of UNESCO disregarded the feelings of the Asian countries still suffering the wounds inflicted upon them by Japan in the past and is playing the role of a marionette, siding with Japan.

It is the undeniable truth of history that Japan forced slave labor on Asians in the past and that is a crime.

Then what is the attitude of Japan?

Whenever Japan's past crimes were brought into question, it made every desperate effort to deny and justify them.

Lurking behind this behavior of Japan is a sinister aim to deny its past history of invasion and crimes against the humanity at any cost. This is little short of its intention to repeat its past history.

Japan is unable to foresee even an inch ahead.

Japan chooses the way of its self-destruction. History remains fair as it will not change due to anyone's subjective point of view. Japan is making desperate efforts to keep its past crimes buried into oblivion, but it will certainly face history's stern judgment any time. It would be well advised to bear this in mind and sincerely admit its wrongs and apologize for them, though belatedly.