DPRK Condemns Japanese PM for His Visit to Yasukuni Shrine

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DPRK Condemns Japanese PM for His Visit to Yasukuni Shrine

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The Japanese Prime Minister visited the Yasukuni Shrine on April 21, again arousing astonishment and wrath from among people in and outside Japan. A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry released a statement Tuesday in this regard.

The recent visit is a sheer blatant challenge to the peace-loving people in Asia and the rest of the world standing against Japan's militarization. This is arousing deeper apprehension among them as it was timed to coincide with the militaristic campaign that is going on in Japan to adopt an emergency law, the statement says, and goes on:

Any visit to the Yasukuni Shrine by the incumbent prime minister of Japan can never be pardoned regardless of its timing and form as it is little short of the Japanese government's action to justify the past crimes of Japan.

The DPRK strongly denounces such reckless deeds as visits to the shrine by persons in high authority and other statesmen of Japan.

If Japan takes the road of militarism again, oblivious of the lessons drawn from the past history in which it was ruined by its own aggression and overseas expansionist moves, it will only precipitate a miserable end.

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