In the first installment of an article contributed to Rodong Sinmun on Friday, the author uncovered the aim sought by militarist Japan in setting up the system of sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army.

The article says:

The first aim was to preserve the combat capacity for an aggression war and establish the military discipline.

Unable to meet the demand for sexual slaves in the early days of the war, the top military officers connived at wartime violence such as rape and gang rape and concealed the truth. Such acts deranged the discipline within the Japanese army, gave a free run to sexual diseases and heightened anti-Japanese feelings among the citizens in the occupied areas. Much embarrassed by this, the top military officers set up massive military "comfort stations" and let the military hold direct control of and operate them.

The second aim sought by Japan in setting up the sexual slavery for the military was to exterminate the Korean nation and make Korea its eternal colony.

What was serious was that it aimed to exterminate the Korean nation by doing away with the reproductive ability of Korean women.

This proves that the monstrous crime about the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army was a hideous crime against humanity aimed at cutting off the blood vessel of the Korean nation and exterminating the whole Korean nation.

The article also clarifies that the essence and nature of the system of sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army lie in that the women were like slaves subject to sexual violence.

However, the Japanese reactionary ruling quarters have asserted that "comfort women made money", "involvement of the military was for defending rights of comfort women" and "it was non-government enterprises which enforced the system".

Their wild words are not only an insult to the survivors but also a trite trick to cover up the nature and the truth about the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army, the article points out.