Crime of Japan, Sworn Enemy of Korean Nation

 Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- The Japanese imperialists, who illegally occupied Korea in the last century, had committed ceaseless massacres against Korean people until the day of their defeat.
It is clearly evidenced by the hideous unethical crimes they committed during the project for building underground imperial headquarters in Matsushiro of Japan.
At the end of 1944 when there were clear signs of their defeat, the Japanese imperialists planned to build a secret basement with a total length of more than 10 km in Matsushiro and invested huge funds and manpower in the project and completed 75 percent of the total project until their defeat the next year.
Most of the workers who were forced to work at this labor-consuming underground construction site were Koreans. Among them were even old people and boys.
According to data, Koreans forced into slave labor here averaged more than 7 000 a day, sometimes more than 10 000.
The Japanese imperialists mobilized Korean people for the project, which was linked to the destiny of the war, with the calculation that they could drive the Korean people into slave labor like beasts of burden and with the sordid intention to massacre the Korean workers for secrecy when the project was over.
They mercilessly oppressed the Koreans, who were driven at four o'clock to the construction site, tied to chains under double or treble control and surveillance, to do hard labor for 13 to 15 hours a day or even more than 16 hours, breaking rocks or carrying heavy stones.
The Japanese imperialist beasts beat the Korean workers to death on the spot if they incurred displeasure even a bit, and some workers were put in a concrete mixture or thrown down from a precipice.
 Not a single day passed without seeing blood of the Korean workers at the construction site. Even those who barely survived were mercilessly killed under the pretext of keeping secret.
The secret basement was a den of beasts and a veritable hell of death stained with blood of many Koreans. -0-