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Japanese authorities' action against DPRK passenger boat assailed

KCNA

    Pyongyang, June 11 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Korean Marine Transport Committee in a statement on June 10 denounced the anti-DPRK action of the Japanese authorities to suspend the call of ship "Mangyongbong-92" at a Japanese port. He said:
    The ship has fulfilled its humanitarian task to ensure repatriation and visits of Koreans in Japan to their homeland according to the agreement reached between the two Red Cross organizations of the DPRK and Japan and contributed to boosting the friendship between the two peoples.
    What the ship has transported was either exports which were allowed by the Japanese law and which went through Japanese custom inspection or humanitarian aid materials and, therefore, there is nothing suspicious.
    As they found it impossible to legislate on restrictions on the port call of "Mangyongbong-92" the Japanese authorities came out with what they called "inspection of equipment," a ridiculous plot.
    When the Japanese authorities raised this issue all of a sudden, they sought a sinister aim to suspend the service of the ship under any pretext which they failed to do so on the strength of the existing law.
    Their action to bar the ship's service and block visits of Koreans in Japan to their homeland is, in essence, a sort of pressure and sanctions against the DPRK.
    The Japanese authorities should ponder over the serious consequences to be entailed by their unreasonable obstruction to the service of the ship "Mangyongbong-92" if it would mean a start of "sanctions" against the DPRK as claimed by the U.S. and its followers.