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KCNA Assails Japan's New Move for Economic Sanctions against DPRK

KCNA

    Pyongyang, December 25 (KCNA) -- The Liberal Democratic Party and the New Komeito Party, ruling political parties in Japan, recently made a decision to submit a draft amendment to the foreign exchange law for discussion at the regular Diet in 2004 in a bid to apply economic sanctions against the DPRK. Under the present foreign exchange law Japan requires a UN resolution or a multilateral agreement for applying economic sanctions against any other country. But the Japanese ruling parties now seek to revise the law so that they can unilaterally apply economic sanctions by a cabinet decision under the pretext of "security crisis."
    Meanwhile, the Democratic Party, a conservative opposition party, began examining a new bill on restricting the portcalls of Mangyongbong-92 and other DPRK-flagged ships so that it may be brought up to a regular Diet session in 2004 for discussion.
    The Democratic Party was reported to have taken this action on the basis of its judgement that there is a need to put stronger pressure on the DPRK in the absence of any progress in the solution to the abduction and nuclear issues.
    These disturbing political moves of the ruling and opposition parties in Japan indicate a strong tendency of the Japanese politics towards the Right as they reveal their undisguised hostile policy toward the DPRK.
    Japan deliberately is linking the DPRK-U.S. nuclear issue, with which it has nothing to do, and the abduction issue, an issue that had already been settled, to "security crisis". This is intended to divert elsewhere the public attention from the root cause of internal contradiction and conflict in the Japanese society and fan up national chauvinism and ultra-nationalism in the society in a bid to realize with ease its ambition to convert the country into a military giant and fascistize it.
    It is well known a fact that strictly pursuant to the U.S. policy for hegemony, the Japanese reactionaries are stepping up their moves to emerge a military power and stretching tentacles of aggression and interference to Asia and all other parts of the world under the pretexts of "anti-terrorism war" and "nuclear issue."
    The two-party system of right-wing conservative political parties emerged in the political arena of Japan after the election of the members of the House of Representatives in November last. They seem to cooperate with each other in the policy to impose sanctions upon the DPRK. This clearly proves that the policies of the Japanese parties serve the purpose of realizing their militarist ambition.
    The Japanese parties and politicians should have repented of and redeemed the crimes committed by Japan in the past as a state that launched the invasion of Asia. But they are keen to repeat the crime-woven history.
    This is little short of a political suicide.
    The Korean people still remember the history of aggression committed by the Japanese imperialists and will never pardon the Japanese reactionaries' hostile moves against the DPRK.