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KCNA Urges Japan to Keep Its Promise

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 18 (KCNA) -- Recently Japanese Foreign Minister Kawaguchi at a meeting of the House of Representatives held to discuss the budget asserted that "Japan made no promise to north Korea to send back 5 abducted Japanese without fail." This is a far-fetched assertion quite contrary to the fact.
    In September last year the DPRK made a decision to allow the five Japanese to return home temporarily from a humanitarian point of view even in the absence of the diplomatic relations and any agreement on legal aid between the DPRK and Japan.
    At that time, the Japanese authorities expressed thanks for the sincere efforts of the DPRK and made a promise to it to send back the survivors to north Korea after their 10-day stay in Japan so that they might have an opportunity to reunite with their families in the DPRK and decide on their future.
    It is the DPRK's stand to send them back to Japan without delay if all of them wish to go to Japan after discussing the matter with their families here.
    Their families in the DPRK also recognize this.
    Jenkins, husband of Shoga, when interviewed by a journalist of the Japanese "Weekly Friday Journal" who visited the DPRK last year,said that "their home visit was expected to last for ten days. Why are they not coming back? I would like to ask the Japanese prime minister why he doesn't send my wife back to Korea".
    Their children including Mihwa and Linda are anxiously waiting for their parents' return as they were supposed to come back after 10 odd days.
    This being a hard fact, Japan forced them to stay there permanently, thus breaking its promise made to the DPRK. It is now demanding the DPRK send their families to Japan unconditionally. What a nasty attitude!
    Such perfidy is a product of the crafty and impudent nature of Japanese politicians as they have neither political creed nor any sense of obligation and a political mode peculiar to Japan.
    The Japanese authorities are obliged to send the survivors back to Pyongyang to keep their promise even now so that they may freely express their will together with their families.