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Japanese Racket over "Abduction Issue" Dismissed

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 15 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary denounces the Japanese reactionaries for grossly violating the spirit and agreed points of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration and working hard to use the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. for meeting their selfish purpose. The Japanese reactionaries are now kicking up a racket, peddling the "abduction issue" in the international arena including the United Nations, the commentary says, and goes on:
    Japan has pursued a hostile policy towards the DPRK for more than half a century without redeeming its past crimes committed against the Korean people, thus causing the hostile relations between the DPRK and Japan to persist and the anti-Japanese sentiment of the Korean people to grow bitter generation after generation. The "abduction issue" was an abnormal isolated phenomenon that occurred against this backdrop.
    This issue had already been solved by the adoption of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration. There is neither reason nor ground for Japan to link the issue to the nuclear issue.
    As far as the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula is concerned, it surfaced as the U.S. has pursued a policy of stifling the DPRK after shipping nukes into south Korea. The nuclear issue is something to be solved between the DPRK and the U.S. But Pyongyang showed such magnanimity as allowing Japan to participate in the six-way talks to discuss the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S., taking its face into consideration.
    The real intention of the Japanese authorities is to compound the nuclear issue and not to see it settled peacefully and diplomatically under any circumstances.
    Lurking behind this is a sinister design of the present rulers to step up the moves to turn Japan's domestic policy to the Right and militarize it under the pretext of the nuclear issue in a bid to consolidate their ruling foundation and establish a military fascist system for overseas aggression.
    The Japanese reactionaries are fostering a war atmosphere, while getting more zealously involved in the U.S.-pursued strategy for international pressure and blockade against the DPRK than any others.
    The reality more clearly proves that Japan can do nothing for solving the DPRK-U.S. nuclear issue. Now that it is clearer that Japan is not the party that the DPRK can deal with it will never allow Tokyo to meddle in any form of negotiations for the settlement of the nuclear issue.
    Japan should know that the noisier anti-DPRK racket Japan kicks up under the pretext of the "abduction issue" the more indelibly it will stain its own name.