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KCNA Accuses Japan of Violating DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- Right after the appearance of the new cabinet called "second term Koizumi cabinet" in Japan on September 22 there happened disturbing acts of violating the main spirit of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration. The chief executive of Japan in a policy speech at an extraordinary Diet session on September 26 again insisted on a "package solution of the abduction, nuclear and missile issues of north Korea."
    Right after his formation of the new cabinet he gave to Ishiba, director general of the Japan Defense Agency, his first instruction to "fundamentally reexamine the equipment and organization to cope with threat of ballistic missiles".
    Koizumi did not utter even a word about the issue of redeeming Japan's past, the core issue in implementing the declaration, but raised a hue and cry over the issue of abduction which had already been settled and the nuclear and missile issue to be solved between the DPRK and the U.S. This is a mockery and violation of the declaration.
    The declaration stipulates that the DPRK and Japan shall not threaten each other's security. The DPRK has never threatened Japan: Not only before the signing of the declaration but after it.
    The basic spirit of the declaration calls for settling the issue of Japan's liquidation of its past, not the "removal of non-existent nuclear and missile threat" to Japan from the DPRK.
    Much talk about the removal of "threat" and "abduction" apart from that issue is little short of refusing to implement the declaration.
    Shelving the issue of redeeming the past after the publication of the declaration, the Japanese authorities are busy floating the fiction of "threat" from the DPRK in collusion with the U.S. They have stepped up its militarization and put spurs to the establishment of the missile defense system. They, at the same time, put spy satellites into orbit and put sanctions upon the DPRK, disturbing the regular service of its ships.
    Japan's vicious anti-DPRK smear campaign and violation of the declaration will only stoke the bitter anti-Japanese sentiment and pent-up wrath of the army and people of Korea.
    The DPRK is closely following the attitude of the Japanese authorities.
    It will never allow Japan to encroach upon its sovereignty and dignity even a bit.
    The Japanese authorities should not violate the basic spirit of the declaration, well aware that Japan's liquidation of its past is a legal and moral obligation whose fulfilment brooks not a moment's delay.