KCNA refutes Japan's sheer sophism
KCNA
Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- A Japanese delegate addressing the 59th UN meeting on human rights held in Geneva on March 19 let loose the sheer sophism that the Japanese government has done its utmost to settle the issue of abduction of Japanese, but the DPRK has refused to "cooperate" with it, arguing that North Korea's kidnapping of Japanese was a serious human rights abuse.
This was a maladroit trick to internationalize the DPRK's "issue of human rights", tarnish its image and thus shirk its political and moral responsibility for having evaded its responsibility to redress its past.
As already clarified by the DPRK more than once, the issue of abduction of Japanese has been already settled.
Japan did enormous human and material, spiritual and moral damage to the Korean people in the last century. But the DPRK, prompted by its bold decision to eliminate the leftover of its past relations with Japan in the new century, fully probed the truth behind the abduction of Japanese accidentally perpetrated by individuals and met the request of Japan to send five Japanese survivors home for the time being.
At that time the Japanese authorities promised to create an atmosphere for those survivors to make together with their families an independent decision on their future after their return to the DPRK from their 10-day hometown visit.
But the Japanese authorities reneged on their promise. They unilaterally decided on the permanent residence of the survivors and have not yet allowed them to reunite with their families.
If there is something unsettled as regards the issue of kidnapping, it was caused by the perfidy on the part of the Japanese authorities.
After backtracking from the internationally recognized agreement and faith between the two states, Japan is making a clumsy excuse that it has done its utmost. This only brings its political and moral vulgarity and shamelessness into bolder relief.
Japan tops the world list of kidnappers. It kidnapped and drafted more than 8.4 million young and middle-aged Koreans to hurl them into battle fields or force them to do slave labor.
They forced at least 200,000 Korean women into sexual slavery for the Japanese army, killing most of them.
It was disclosed recently that some agents of the bogus organization called the "fund for rescuing North Korean refugees," a non-governmental organization of Japan, made their way into the area of the DPRK-China border and kidnapped at least 20 Japanese spouses and Korean returnees from Japan in the DPRK and took them to Japan. This incident is creating a furore.
The Japanese authorities should punish those responsible for kidnapping and taking DPRK citizens to Japan and open to the public the truth behind the above-said incident before talking about the issue of the kidnapping of Japanese.
Japan can neither hold up its head nor have its say on the international arena unless it redresses its biggest crimes committed against the Korean people in the last century and probes and opens to the public the truth behind the recently disclosed case of kidnapping.
The Japanese authorities should make a political decision on whether Japan will honestly redress its past in the spirit of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration or continue beautifying its crime-woven past to remain recorded as a criminal state.
