The editorial accused the Japanese authorities of shamelessly taking such countermeasures as instructing their ambassador and consul in south Korea to return home in protest against the erection of a statue of a girl before the Japanese consulate in Pusan.

It termed the Japanese government's action the one of "the guilty party filing the suit first".

Noting that Park Geun Hye and Hwang Kyo An keep mum about Japan's behavior, it labeled Park the arch criminal who orchestrated the conclusion of the pro-Japanese "agreement" on sexual slavery and the agreement on protecting military intelligence.

The Abe government keen to cover up the Japanese history of sexual slavery with the removal of statues of a girl and Park Geun Hye and Hwang Kyo An yielding to its pressure would be judged by history, it warned.