The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Sunday again urged Japan to sincerely redeem its past crimes without delay.

"Japan's liquidation of its past is its unavoidable legal and moral obligations and its historical commitment. Japan should show to the world its will to settle its past wrongs in practice this year," the major newspaper of Rodong Sinmun said in a signed article.

The article also urged Japan to pay the debt incurred to the Korean nation, the victim, as an assailant and its honest apology and compensation for the damage done to the Koreans.

"The liquidation of the past crimes has become an international trend in the present times," it stressed.

The article said Germany has already admitted the crimes committed by Nazis during the World War II and made honest apology for them and paid adequate material compensation to the victims.

"Quite contrary to this, Japan has persistently refused to admit its past crimes and settle them. It is leaving no means untried to evade its responsibility for its past crimes, denying and whitewashing all sorts of wrongs committed by it in Korea in the past," the article added.

Source: Xinhua