The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has demanded that Japan apologize and provide compensation for the slave labor it took from Korea from the 1920s to 1940s, the official KCNA news agency reported on July 25.
The demand was made by "the Association of Korean Victims of Forcible Drafting and Their Bereaved Families" in a survey report released Saturday.
The report said that "a large number of Koreans were forced to perform slave labor at 'the Aso Coal Mines' run by ancestors of Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso and horrible damage done to them."
It asked Aso and the Japanese government to "thoroughly probe the truth about all the crimes committed against the Korean people in the past" and "make an honest apology and reparation to the dead and the bereaved families."
