DPRK says footage of a Japanese massacre of sex slaves found

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Footage of Japanese troops massacring sex slaves during World World Two was recently discovered, said the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) state media.

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 Republic of Korea's (ROK) national broadcaster.

"The 19-second-long video, which was stored at the US National Archives, reportedly shows the scene of [the] 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.

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.

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency