Reckless remarks of Tokyo metropolitan governor assailed
KCNA
Pyongyang, April 9 (KCNA) -- Shortly ago Tokyo metropolitan governor Shintaro Ishihara, crying out for Japan's rearming, let loose a spate of reckless remarks that "Japan should take revenge upon North Korea" over the kidnapping issue and "North Korea will come to know that it will meet the same fate as Iraq's" as regards the nuclear issue.
Rodong Sinmun Wednesday terms this as a fit of a lunatic who does not distinguish sky from earth as well as the four cardinal points.
It says:
We do not know on whom Ishihara counted while behaving so recklessly. It is better to let him lie on a bed of a mental hospital.
What we would like to say explicitly is that his reckless remarks are not a slip of the tongue but a revelation of the Japanese reactionaries' ambition for reinvasion of the DPRK and an undisguised agitation for a war.
Ishihara's accusation against the DPRK is no more than barking at the moon. If Japanese reactionaries persist in the rash acts to hurt the sentiment and self-confidence of the DPRK, it will only harden the determination of its army and people to take revenge upon Japan and encourage them to wipe out the group of militarists including Ishihara to the last man.
It is pity and disgrace for Japan that such lunatic as Ishihara is still on the political arena of Japan.
