A commentary of Rodong Sinmun Thursday observes in this regard:

His reckless remarks are the revelation of the shamelessness peculiar to the island barbarian to cover up the hideous crimes against humanity committed by Japan in the past and evade their liquidation.

The abduction issue on the lip-service of Abe had already been settled long ago.

Japan still has an important and historic outstanding abduction issue.

Having put Korea under its military occupation in the first half of the last century, Japan set in motion government power and military power to organizationally abduct Koreans. It fabricated even the "National Mobilization Law" to take more than 8.4 million young and middle-aged people to battlefields and slave labor sites and mercilessly kill more than one million Koreans and force 200,000 Korean women into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army.

Japan's abduction crime is the heinous war crime to which no statute of limitations is applicable.

Japan vociferates the "contribution to the international community", but it has not yet shaken off its disgrace of being a country that committed worst-ever war crimes, abductions and hideous crimes against humanity.

Abe's forces try to flee from the historic responsibility and obligation to liquidate the past under the pretext of abduction issue.

Japan's "general summing up of the postwar Japan's diplomacy" should be subordinated to the thorough-going liquidation of the crimes it committed in Korea in the first half of the last century.

Japan's future lies in it.