Victims from south Korea, Indonesia, East Timor and Philippines bitterly lamented over the pain they suffered due to sexual slavery and demanded the Japanese government make an apology and reparation for the crime.

The event-sponsoring side claimed Japan-south Korea "agreement" cannot help settle the issue of sexual slavery, urging the Japanese government to take a step acceptable to all victims.

Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun Friday says:

The issue of sexual slavery is not merely an issue that can be glossed over with a petty amount of money but a sensitive political and international matter.

There are victims of sexual slavery not only in south Korea but in the north of the Korean peninsula, other countries in Asia and Europe.

They haven't yet received an official apology from the Japanese government, and Japan has disregarded all of them.

The world history of war knows no such country as Japan which regarded women of other countries as means for raising the morale of aggressor troops and reduced them to sexual slaves.

Japan should make an apology for the crime, bearing responsibility.

With no sleight of hand can Japan cover up the thrice-cursed sexual slavery.

Japan persists in behaving sordidly in defiance of the truth of history but the service personnel and people of the DPRK will surely force it to pay dearly for all crimes it committed during its colonial rule over Korea.