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Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- If Japan wants to be a permanent
member of the U.N. Security Council, it should sincerely fulfill
its commitments to be trusted by the international community.
Rodong Sinmun Monday observes this in a signed article.
Drawing attention to the recent reckless remarks made by Japanese
heavyweights denying the decision made by an international tribunal
against militarist war criminals of imperial Japan, openly
supporting and justifying the distortion of history in textbooks
and backing the visits to the "Yasukuni Shrine," the article says:
All these moves of Japan are a challenge to human conscience and an
act of swimming against the trend of the times.
These rash actions would not help Japan get international
confidence and hold a responsible post at the U.N. If Japan is to
take a new road of development, it should not repeat the wrong acts
perpetrated as regards the relations with other countries in the
past but reflect on them and opt for developing the true ties of
friendship with them. The Japanese imperialists committed too
hideous crimes against the world and humankind as a most barbaric
aggressor, plunderer and murderer in the first half of the 20th
century. Had Japan felt even an iota of guilty conscience and
responsibility for the crimes committed in the past, it would not
have tampered with history and sought militarization so
undisguisedly.
The world regards Japan as one of the most dangerous forces of
aggression in the 21st century.
The danger of the Japanese reactionaries' moves for militarization
finds a more vivid manifestation in its establishment of war-time
system, arms build-up and escalated military presence overseas. In
case Japan rushing headlong into militarization is allowed to sit
on the U.N. Security Council, it will perpetrate aggression and war
in different parts of the world without hesitation by abusing the
power of the U.N. and bring horrible misfortune and disasters to
humankind, while behaving as a political and military power. How
can the world trust such country as Japan and permit it to hold a
responsible post at the U.N which handles important international
issues. The more desperate efforts of the Japanese militarist
forces to grab other countries' territories, justify visits to the
"Yasukuni Shrine", distort history and revive militarism would only
render Japan further isolated in the international community. Japan
would be well advised to behave itself to be trusted by the world
community, well aware of how the world views and approaches it.
What is essential for Japan is to redress its past crimes. This is
top priority for Tokyo.
