DPRK proposes talks with Japan to redress human rights abuses

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DPRK proposes talks with Japan to redress human rights abuses

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The Democratic People's Republicof Korea (DPRK) on Tuesday urged Japan to hold formal talks on Japan's compensation to victims of human rights abuses during the 1910-1945 Japanese colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.

The DPRK wanted the inter-governmental talks to be held "at the earliest possible date," said a DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman in a statement.

In the statement, the DPRK demanded Japan apologize for "hideous human rights abuses committed during its occupation and rule over Korea including suppression and massacre of Koreans."

The abuses also included "forcible drafting, sexual slavery, tests on living bodies, forcible migration and deportation, and forced change of Korean names into Japanese," according to the statement.

The DPRK recently released a list of over 420,000 Korean victims, but it was only "a tiny part" of those Koreans forcibly drafted during the Japanese occupation of Korea, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) quoted the statement as saying.

"The normalization of the DPRK-Japan relations can never take place unless Japan compensates for the above-said human rights abuses," said the statement.

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