(LEAD) war hero-burial record (LEAD) S. Korea removes state burial record of Gen. Paik as pro-Japanese figure(ATTN: UPDATES with independence group's response in last 2 paras) SEOUL, July 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's veterans ministry said Monday it has deleted a state burial record describing Korean War hero Gen. Paik Sun-yup as a pro-Japanese figure, saying that such an expression was written with no legal grounds. The ministry said it has decided to remove a phrase identifying Paik as a person who engaged in pro-Japanese and anti-national activities in the late general's online burial record on the Daejeon National Cemetery's website, a term that strikes a sour note due to Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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