calendar>>September 14. 2018 Juche 107
Hideous Crime with No Statute of Limitations
Pyongyang, September 14 (KCNA) -- Japan is a heinous criminal state that had abducted a large number of Koreans by using the government and military power during the colonial rule over Korea.

It is well evidenced by the fact that remains of Koreans have been unearthed in Japan en masse in recent years.

After the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war, the Japanese imperialists kidnapped or abducted more than 8.4 millions of young and middle-aged people to impose slavery on them in battlefields and hard toil places.

And most of 200 000 Korean women reduced to sexual slavery for the imperial Japanese army were slaughtered.

Young and middle-aged Koreans were forced into deadly labor in various countries of Asia, to say nothing of Japan, and even islets in the Pacific for 12 to 18 hours a day, 20 hours to the maximum under the slavery discipline and were brutally killed.

A Japanese who served as an intelligent officer in the imperial Japanese army testified that nearly 2 000 chained Koreans were subjected to forced labor in the underground bomb-shelter of the Matsushiro imperial headquarters under construction with top secrecy from April 1945 to the defeat of Japan and many of them were killed.

And many Koreans drafted into the imperial Japanese army met with a tragic end, which is proved through the fact that 1 500 Koreans were annihilated on several southern islets in November 1943 and only a few people returned home from battlefields.

All these facts prove once again that the abduction of Koreans committed by the Japanese imperialists is, indeed, a hideous crime against humanity with no statute of limitations to be liquidated without fail.

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