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North Korea has criticized Japan's plan to replace the term "Nanjing Massacre" with "Nanjing Incident" in exhibition descriptions at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, calling it a "historical distortion scheme by neo-militarists."

KCNA, in a commentary titled "Japan's Historical Distortion Scheme That Hastens Its Own Ruin," cited the Nagasaki museum's recent policy change and said it showed "to what extent the historical distortion schemes of neo-militarists have gone, as they are running amok trying to gloss over enormous past crimes as if they were just one insignificant 'incident' that happened on an ordinary day," according to Yonhap News Agency.

The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, located in the city where an atomic bomb was dropped near the end of World War II, recently submitted a revised exhibition description to its operating advisory committee. The revision replaces the existing term "massacre" with "the Nanjing Incident, in which large numbers of civilians and prisoners of war were killed" in reference to the atrocity committed by Japanese forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

KCNA also cited examples of Japan distorting history textbooks on issues including forced conscription and the use of comfort women by the Japanese military, and assessed that Japan is falsifying history not merely to deny its past but to prepare for future aggression.

"The military forces of Japan's 'Self-Defense Forces' have in effect completed all preparations for overseas aggression and are emerging as the most dangerous aggressive force in the region by trumpeting 'threats from outside,'" KCNA said. "What is most important for Japan at this time is to thoroughly prepare the new generation as direct bearers and executors of war."

The agency added that "this is precisely why Japan persistently clings to instilling a distorted view of history through museums and classrooms," and warned that "Japan must keep in mind that the more vicious its historical distortion schemes become, the more it will only hasten its own ruin."

The commentary also appeared on page six of the Rodong Sinmun, the section equivalent to the international news pages.

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