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Japan Urged to Properly Opt for Improved Relations

KCNA

    Pyongyang, January 6 (KCNA) -Japan should attach importance to the sincere implementation of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration from the viewpoint that it is beneficial to Japan, too, and exert substantial efforts for improving the bilateral relations in good faith, urges Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary. Last year the DPRK-Japan relations were on the verge of explosion far away from the spirit of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration. This was attributable to Japan's perfidy and it's hostile policy toward the DPRK, the commentary says, and goes on:
    In the new century a favorable political atmosphere was created for the DPRK and Japan to normalize the bilateral relations in the wake of the adoption of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration. However, Japan pushed the relations to the extremes, desperately toeing the U.S. line and pursuing a hostile policy toward the DPRK in breach of the spirit of the declaration.
    Japan has worked hard to politicize and internationalize the abduction issue, an issue that had, in fact, already been solved after the adoption of the declaration, in a bid to tarnish the dignity and image of the DPRK. It even kicked up an unprecedented anti-DPRK racket, vociferating about nuclear and missile issues.
    It was none other than Japan which took the lead in laying an international siege to the DPRK to support the U.S. It adopted an emergency legislation equivalent to the "general national mobilization order" in the period of the Japanese imperialist rule, decided to introduce the missile defense system and then launched military spy satellites one after another under the pretext of coping with military threat from the DPRK. While escalating such military provocations Japan imposed more stringent sanctions upon the DPRK and intensified the campaigns against the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan.
    The Pyongyang declaration is a landmark of the improved DPRK-Japan relations, the commentary notes, contending that if Japan respects the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration and acts in good faith the DPRK will also do so.