북한 리종혁 "일본 수출규제조치, 과거 범죄행위 은폐하려는 속셈"<br /><br />North Korea is also criticizing Japan for its export curbs on the South, accusing Japan of using trade to cover up its wartime atrocities.<br />Speaking exclusively to South Korean broadcaster KBS at an international forum in the Philippines,... the vice chairman of Pyeongyang's Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, Ri Jong-hyok, said the restrictions are not just economic retaliation.<br />Rather, he said, Tokyo is using them to whitewash its war crimes.<br />He also said Japan needs to apologize and compensate the Koreans it used for forced labor and those it sexually enslaved... if it wants to mend ties with Pyeongyang.<br />
