The Japanese delegate gabbled at the 28th extraordinary session of the U.N. General Assembly held some time ago on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Oswiecim Concentration Camp that Japan "saved" Jews fleeing from Hitlerite Nazis during the Second World War and swaggered as if Japan has cleansed itself of the stigma of an "enemy state", waxing quite eloquent about the issue of U.N. fund sharing. Commenting on this, an analyst of Rodong Sinmun Friday says:
This is an intolerable insult to the Asian people and the world peace-loving people, being a crafty petty trick to cover up and embellish Japan's past crimes and to grab the seat of a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council.
It is the height of sarcasm for the Japanese delegate to claim that the Japanese imperialists did "something good" for Nazi victims during the Second World War. Quite nonsensical is the jargon that Japan which was a military ally of fascist Germany "saved" Jews from Hitler, betraying its ally.
Still more impudent is the claim that Japan has cleaned itself of the stigma of an "enemy state" thanks to its U.N. fund sharing. In the past the Japanese imperialists invaded Korea, China and other Asian countries, imposing shocking misfortunes and calamities upon their peoples. Japan, however, does not admit still today the grave crimes it committed against the world and humankind in past century and persistently evades the settlement of the past. For this, it has not yet been cleaned of the dishonor of an "enemy state" and finds itself the target of curses, denunciation and vigilance of all people.
The stigma of an "enemy state" is not wiped out by U.N. fund sharing.
In trumpeting about what it calls "international contribution" while openly distorting and beautifying its past history of aggression on the UN rostrum, Japan seeks to evade to the end a proper compensation for the grave crimes committed by it in the last century and grab at any cost the seat of a permanent member of the UN Security Council and thus behave as a political power and a military power. This seat is neither sold and bought with money nor got with mere wish.
Japan would be well advised to sincerely settle its past before stealing a look at the seat of a permanent member state of the UNSC.