North Korea's official KCNA news agency reported Friday that the then-South Korean government during normalization talks with the Japanese government in 1965 had requested too little monetary compensation for Korean victims of Japan's colonial rule of the peninsula from 1910-1945.

Reporting on Seoul's recent disclosure of state documents involving past normalization negotiations between Seoul and Tokyo, KCNA pointed out that Seoul authorities had asked Japan to compensate some one million South Korean victims who suffered during the colonized years but it asserted that the requested sum - 200 dollars each for survivors and 1,650 dollars for the dead - was ridiculously inadequate.