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KCNA on DPRK's Sincere Approach towards "Abduction Issue"

KCNA

    Pyongyang, January 27 (KCNA) -- Japan is perfidiously behaving, misinterpreting the DPRK's magnanimous approach towards the "abduction issue." The DPRK side clarified its principled stand on the issue and expressed its sincere attitude towards the handling of issues including the matter of families of abductees when meeting Japanese Dietmen in Beijing in December last year.
    This was part of the DPRK's sincere efforts for the permanent reunion of abductees and their families.
    It was by no means fortuitous that the international community was unanimous in commenting that the DPRK was certainly ready to settle the abduction issue including the repatriation of families of abductees.
    Nevertheless, the Japanese reactionaries are deliberately creating difficulties and obstacles in the way of solving the issue while describing the DPRK's good faith and efforts as "cheap publicity" and as "something not worth any comment" in a bid to mislead public opinion.
    The Japanese reactionaries pretend to be sympathetic with "abductees" but, in fact, are keen to continue using the "abduction issue" for the political purpose of their campaign against the DPRK.
    This behaviour is intolerable.
    Explicitly speaking, the DPRK has done all it can as regards the "abduction issue".
    It sincerely approached the issue with great magnanimity. It explained in detail how it surfaced and handed to the Japanese side all the copies of necessary documents within the limit of possibility from a humanitarian viewpoint. It also realized the visit of survivors to their hometowns. It was against this backdrop that the DPRK had the Beijing contact and it reflected its invariable stand to terminate the DPRK-Japan hostile relations.
    Japan reneged on the intergovernmental agreement on the "issue of abduction" in the past and dismissed the DPRK's good-will proposal as "worthless" this time. The DPRK can not but doubt Japan's real aim sought in persistently raising this issue.
    It is needless to say that Japan seeks to internationalize the issue of "abduction" in a bid to defame the international image of the DPRK and thus conceal its crimes committed in the past.
    Japan is vociferating only about the "issue of abduction", turning aside from the issue of victims of the "sexual slavery" for the imperial Japanese army and forcible drafting, the most monstrous human rights abuses. Such despicable behavior of Japan should be dealt with at the United Nations.
    It is the DPRK's stand that the UN should handle Japan's past crimes, that is, the human rights abuses it committed before the foundation of the UN.
    If the issue is not satisfactorily solved despite its DPRK's sincere efforts, Japan will have to be fully accountable for this.