April 25, 2024
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KCNA slams Japan’s criticism of An memorial

Abe government criticized for efforts to ‘revive militarism’

The Korean Central News Agency on Sunday slammed the Japanese government for their objections to the An Jung-gun memorial in China.

The editorial praised An, who assassinated Japanese Governor-General of Korea Ito Hirobumi in 1909, as “an ardent anti-Japanese patriotic martyr” and called Ito a “sworn enemy of the Korean people.”

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