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North Korea has condemned Japan after the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum decided to change its reference to the Nanjing Massacre during the Second Sino-Japanese War to the “Nanjing Incident.”
In an editorial, the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) said the museum’s decision was part of a scheme to distort history by new militarists in Japan.
The Nanjing Massacre, historically designated as a major war crime and crime against humanity, refers to the Imperial Japanese Army’s mass rape and murder of civilians and prisoners of war in the Chinese city in 1937.
The KCNA accused Japan of distorting history in preparation for an invasion, also referencing past distortions in Japanese history textbooks regarding the Imperial Army’s conscription and sexual enslavement of victims during World War
The news agency then claimed that the Japan Self-Defense Forces have completed preparations for an overseas invasion and have become “the most dangerous” invading forces in the region.