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Japan hit for blocking way of humanitarian visits

KCNA

    Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) -- Recently the Japanese authorities laid all of a sudden artificial and deliberate obstacles in the way of the call of the ship "Mangyongbong-92" at Japanese port. The Central Committee of the DPRK Red Cross Society in a statement on Monday denounced such unreasonable behavior as an extremely provocative and mean hostile act intended to hurt the dignity of the DPRK and quell spirit of humanitarianism and an anachronistic act of dampening the desire of the peoples of both countries to improve the DPRK-Japan relations according to the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration.
    Recalling that the ship has never done anything contrary to international law and the Japanese laws, the statement said:
    Clamoring about humanitarianism, the Japanese authorities are contemplating a very dangerous strong measure to disallow the call of the humanitarian ship at Niigata port, a measure that can be taken only in case of emergency. Such measure is a quite inhumanitarian deed ununderstandable to everyone in every sense.
    Humanitarianism can never be a target of repression or sanctions in any case nor be a political plaything.
    Nobody can block free visits of Korean residents in Japan to their homeland by sea, a humanitarian work closely followed by the world.
    Those going against humanitarianism will never escape the judgment of conscience of humankind and justice.
    The Japanese authorities should rectify their illegal policy of supporting the U.S. anti-DPRK policy, in the spirit of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration and the agreement signed between the Red Cross organizations of the two countries. They should promptly stop all sorts of provocative actions against the call of the ship "Mangyongbong-92" at Japanese port and allow free visits of students and other Korean residents in Japan who are now anxiously waiting for the ship to visit their homeland.