DPRK Condemns Japanese PM for His Visit to War ShrineThe official Rodong Sinmun issued a commentary Friday to condemn Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi for his recent official visit to Yasukuni Shrine.Koizumi visited Tokyo's war shrine on August 13 to pay homage to Japan's war dead, including 14 Class A war criminals, despite strong opposition at home and abroad. The commentary stressed that the visit is an insult to those countries and peoples that fell victim to the Japanese imperialists' aggression and is nothing but an expression of his intention to embellish Japan's crime-woven past. While visiting the shrine, he paid "tribute" to the war dead, thus describing them as "patriots" and "heroes," through which he seeks to create an atmosphere of visiting the shrine in Japan and prepare all the Japanese as a "shock brigade" ready to go into a militarist war of reinvasion, the commentary noted. No one can predict what consequences they, obsessed with such ideological viewpoint and way of thinking, will bring to the world. Japan has emerged in the new century to be the source of disasters, said the commentary. The Japanese prime minister's visit to the shrine will make Japan stand further isolated and lead it to destruction. If the Japanese authorities put spurs to the moves to revive militarism, Japan will have no future, the commentary added. |
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