KCNA Commentary Condemns Japan for Working Hard to Grab Tok Islets

Pyongyang, March 23 (KCNA) -- Japan's moves to distort history have gone beyond the tolerance limit. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan on March 18 confirmed and made public the results of the screening of the textbooks dealing with social subjects including geography and history for the senior high schools from 2017. According to it, among 35 kinds of Japanese textbooks dealing with social subjects, Tok Islets were marked as "part of the territory of Japan" in 27 kinds of history textbooks and the description that "the military was involved in drafting sexual slaves" was deleted from most of the textbooks. This means 69 percent of the textbooks dealt with Tok Islets two years back but 77 percent of them described the islets as "part of territory of Japan" at present. Consequently, distorted history that Tok Islets belong to Japan will be taught at most of senior high schools in Japan in the wake of primary and secondary schools. The Japanese reactionaries can never translate into reality their militarist scenario for establishing the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere", which they failed to do in the past, by teaching the distorted history to the younger generation and thereby hurling them into overseas aggression and reinvasion of Korea. They would be well advised to stop running amuck to grab others' territory, a daydream, but honestly redress its crime-woven past, to begin with. -0-