Japan's anti-DPRK smear campaign lambasted
KCNA
Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- Some Japanese media and right-wing forces are making much ado about "instructions for operation" given through liner Mangyongbong-92 and Japan-based "operations" against South Korea. They are even asserting that the ship at issue has not only been used as a base of conveying instructions for operation but as a means of carrying out the duties of "illegal remittance" and the "transportation of goods whose export is restricted" to North Korea.
In this regard Rodong Sinmun today carries a signed commentary.
It says:
The smear campaign launched by the Japanese reactionaries with lies and fabrications is nothing but a base and vicious move against the DPRK and the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) as it is intended to suppress Chongryon and tarnish the dignity and the honor of the DPRK and, furthermore, drive a wedge between the north and the south of Korea going in the direction of reunification.
What merits a more serious attention is that this campaign is timed to coincide with the U.S. ill-boding moves over the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula.
In the wake of the Pyongyang visit of the Japanese Prime Minister and the adoption of the historic DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration the Japanese right-wing reactionaries have let loose a string of anti-DPRK vituperations over the issue of "kidnapping" at the instigation of the U.S.
They, together with some ruling circles, are trying to prevent Mangyongbong-92 from entering port in Japan, groundlessly terming it a "ship transporting nuclear and missile parts." This can not be construed otherwise than a move to invent a pretext to put sanctions on the DPRK.
Japan is well advised to behave with discretion, well judging the consequences to be entailed by its act of further increasing the tensions.
