KCNA refutes Japan's piffle about issue of "kidnapping"
KCNA
Pyongyang, April 14 (KCNA) -- Japan reportedly refuted the assertion about the death of kidnapped Japanese in a diplomatic blue paper for 2003, which referred to the issue of abduction of Japanese. Chief Cabinet Secretary Fukuda at a press conference on April 9 termed the abduction of Japanese by North Korea terrorism and Foreign Minister Kawaguchi told the same rubbish.
Japan's such demeanour is a mean trick to tarnish the image of the peace-loving DPRK and build up public opinion in favour of moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK in order to please the U.S., its master, who terms the DPRK a "terrorism sponsor".
This is an intolerable challenge to the DPRK as it has thoroughly probed the truth behind the issue of "kidnapped Japanese", an accidental case perpetrated by individuals, prompted by a bold decision to settle the old relations with Japan in the basic spirit of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration which calls for liquidating the unhappy past between the two countries and improving the bilateral relations.
The DPRK has done everything it can to settle the issue of kidnapped Japanese. However, Japan still refuses to admit the death of kidnapped Japanese. Such moral vulgarity of Japan lashes the Koreans into a great fury as it is responding to the good faith with evil.
To make it clear once again the death of kidnapped Japanese, the DPRK has conducted investigation into it and confirmed it and informed Japan in detail that they died for various reasons in the long period of time. Therefore, Japan should not grumble about the matter.
As far as five survivors are concerned, the DPRK accepted Japan's request to allow them to visit Japan for ten-odd days.
What matters is that the Japanese authorities broke the promise it had made to let them reunite with their families after their return from Japan and decide on the issue related to their future.
It is our stand to send them to Japan without delay if they wish to go back to Japan after discussing it with their families here.
However, they have not yet reunited with their kin here due to the Japanese authorities' perfidious and unilateral decision on their permanent repatriation to Japan. This is one more tragedy in the world.
Soga's husband Jenkins and her two daughters Mihwa and Linda and her other families who are living here as before, are eagerly longing for reuniting with her who had gone to Japan.
In utter disregard of this fact, the Japanese authorities are preventing them from reuniting with each other. This is arousing censure and denunciation of the world public.
If Japan keeps going against the basic spirit of the declaration while misusing the issue of kidnapped Japanese for a political purpose, it will have to pay a very high price for that some day.
