KCNA urges Japan to redress past crimes

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KCNA urges Japan to redress past crimes

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The Japanese government is under legal and moral obligations to thoroughly investigate the truth behind the forcible drafting of Koreans, sincerely apologize to the victims and their bereaved families and compensate them, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a commentary released Monday.

The commentary said a list of 427,129 Korean victims of forcible drafting during the Japanese imperialists' military occupation of the Korean Peninsular was disclosed recently and that the list is just a tip of iceberg of the crimes related to the forcible drafting.

During the Pacific war, Japan forcibly took away more than 8.4 million young Koreans for slave labor and military service and forced 200,000 women into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese army and killed many of them, it added.

"The forcible drafting of Koreans and forced labor imposed upon them were the most hideous state-sponsored human rights abuses wantonly violating international justice and law as they were a product of Japan's policy to exterminate the Korean nation," the commentary said.

"However, the Japanese authorities have craftily worked to evade their state responsibility for the monstrous crime the Japanese imperialists committed against the Koreans in the past although more than half a century has passed since the defeat of Japan," it said.

Japan is a war criminal state as it brought untold disasters tothe Koreans and other Asian people and it is an unavoidable state obligation and political commitment for Japan to make apology and compensation to the victims in view of international law and from ethical and moral points of view, the commentary stressed.

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