North Korea has urged Japan to apologize for its past crimes during World War Two, referring to the statues and monuments placed in the U.S. to represent victims of sexual slavery of Japanese troops.

The North’s ruling Worker’s Party organ Nodong Shimnum on Wednesday reported in an individual contribution that even the statues in the U.S. criticizing Japan’s act of wartime sex slavery explicitly show the international community’s degree of rage towards the Japanese government’s distortion of history.

The paper also reported that Tokyo sent its New York consul general to New Jersey in May and offered a significant economic support to the city in exchange for the removal of a monument dedicated to victims of sexual slavery. The offer, however, was turned down. It added that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should use the term “enforced sex slaves” in place of the term “comfort women.”