Pyongyang, February 4 (KCNA) — Japan’s history is woven with crimes against the Korean people. It launched aggression on Korea hundreds of years ago.
After occupying Korea in a brigandish way, the Japanese imperialists inflicted untold pain and misfortune upon the Korean people, working hard to realize their aggressive daydream of the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”.
History discloses the crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists, the sworn enemy of the Korean people. The unethical crimes are so hideous that they can never be pardoned.
Japs Commit Massacre and Plunder in Imjin War
Japan ignited a war of aggression on Korea with more than 200,000 troops in 1592 (Imjin Year).
This was the first state-sponsored criminal act committed by Japan against Korea.
In this war, called the Imjin Patriotic War on the part of the Korean people, the Japanese murderers saliently revealed their brutality.
Spearheaded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who took power by force of arms, the Japanese murderers brutally killed the Korean people everywhere, gouging their eyes out and chopping their heads to be hung before their military encampments.
According to data available, the Japanese aggressors killed more than 113,300 Koreans during the second invasion. If the number of Koreans massacred in various regions during the first invasion is added, the number amounts to hundreds of thousands.
During the war, the Japanese aggressors cut off many Koreans’ limbs, buried them alive and burned them to death, while getting hell-bent on plunder and destruction.
They indiscriminately plundered and destroyed famous pottery and other cultural assets of Korea and forcibly took potters to Japan. They kidnapped not only talented persons in various fields such as Confucian scholar, doctor, architect, painter and printer but also ordinary people.
The Imjin Patriotic War ended in a crushing defeat of Japan in 1598 for the death-defying resistance of the Koreans, but the Korean people sustained great suffering for a long time because of the ensuing shortage of talents and the lack of labour force.
The atrocities committed by the Japanese aggressors during the Imjin Patriotic War are a hideous state-sponsored crime that can never go with impunity.
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