PYONGYANG, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The official media of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Saturday reported on a newly discovered video showing Japanese troops massacring sex slaves in 1944.
A video showing the Japanese Imperial Army's massacre of sex slaves was recently disclosed to the public, said the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), citing reports by the South Korean KBS.
"The 19-seconds-long video, which was stored at the U.S. National Archives, reportedly shows the scene of killing dozens of Korean women who had been taken away to Yunnan Province of China as sex slaves by the Japanese imperial aggressor forces in September 1944," said the KCNA.
The DPRK condemns Japanese enslavement of Korean women as a state-sponsored crime against humanity.
A DPRK researcher said in an article published by the KCNA last month that Japan can never shirk responsibility for crimes related to sex slavery.
Ri Hye Yong, a researcher at the Human Rights Division of the DPRK Institute of International Studies, said that Japan has "in the first half of the last century forced hundreds of thousands of women from Korea and several other countries into humiliating sexual slavery."
"Nevertheless, Japan recently keeps harping on 'championing women's empowerment' deceitfully in the international arenas including the UN. What is worse, it impudently seeks to cover up its past crime by paying a trivial sum of money," said the article.
"Japan cannot cover up its past crimes of sexual slavery -- the A-class state-sponsored crime against humanity that has left an indelible mark on mankind's history," it said.