DPRK blasts Japanese officials for visit to Yasukuni shrine

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DPRK blasts Japanese officials for visit to Yasukuni shrine

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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea(DPRK) Sunday sharply criticized some Japanese high-ranking officials for visiting the Yasukuni shrine, denouncing the visit as an agitation for Japan's militarism.

The recent visit is "a serious political criminal act," said a commentary released by the DPRK's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

The commentary said the visit is a "direct defiance" toward thepeople of the DPRK and other Asian countries.

On Oct. 17, 19 parliamentary members and 49 deputies of cabinetministers or parliamentary members paid a visit to the shrine in file.

KCNA said that regular visits by senior Japanese officials to the Yasukuni shrine shows that the Japanese society is increasingly deviating to rightism.

Japan colonized the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945, for which the DPRK has long been demanding compensation and apology. Though they have held 12 rounds of normalization talks so far, Pyongyang and Tokyo have yet to establish diplomatic relations because of disputes on a series of historical problems.

Official visits to the Yasukuni shrine, a symbol of Japanese militarism which honors more than 2.5 million Japanese World War II dead, including 14 Class-A war criminals, are always strongly attacked by the DPRK and other Asian countries which were invaded by Japanese army during the war.

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