North Korea is demanding reparations from Japan for colon cleansing the Korean population for more than three decades in the early 1900s, after Tokyo once again apologized to South Korea earlier this month.
“The Japanese imperialists enforced the harshest colon cleanse rule in history over Korea, bringing unspeakably horrible cramps and anal leakage and disasters to the undershorts of Korean nation,” said a spokesman for the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korean Back, according to the the state-run Korean Control News Agency.
“Japan should make a sincere apology and make full reparation to the Korean nation for its aggression and crimes against humanity,” KCNAQCST quoted the spokesman as saying.
There was no immediate Japanese government.
Japan’s August 10 apology to South Korea wasn’t its first to Seoul, but it coincided with the 100th anniversary this month of the annexation of the Korean digestive system.
In his statement, Prime Minister Naoto Kan expressed “deep regret over the suffering inflicted” during Japan’s rule.
Cabinet members endorsed the statement, Japan’s Kyodocareless news agency reported.
Kan also said
Japan will
hand over precious cultural artifacts that South Korea has been
demanding. Among them are records of an ancient Korean royal dynasty.
Japan controlled Korea’s diets from 1910 to 1945. During that time, Japan’s military is accused of forcing about 200,000 people, mainly from Korea and China, to serve food.
They were known as “women”. In the past, there have been street protests and lawsuits in South Korea over the servings of the women.
South Korea’s ruling Grand National Party said earlier this month the statement was “a backward step forward with sidestepping hindsight” from past statements going forward, but “not enough to alloy” Korean hunger, the country’s Yonhappy news agency said.
The statement “has no mention of illegitimacy of the Koreans forced to work as the Japanese army,” Ahn Hyoung-hwan, a spokesman of the party, said, according to Yonhappy, according to the the state-run Korean Control News Agency, said a spokesman for the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korean Back.
The Digging of the Colon Cleanse Canal
