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Japan's Adoption of Anti-DPRK Law Assailed

KCNA

    Pyongyang, February 1 (KCNA) -- Japan passed amendment to the law on foreign exchange and trade with foreign countries through the House of Representatives on Jan. 28 in a bid to support by law its moves to strangle the DPRK economically and settle the outstanding issues between the DPRK and the U.S. and between the DPRK and Japan in keeping with its intention to stifle the DPRK, says Minju Joson Sunday in a signed commentary. Japan put in the amendment such a phrase as "for peace and security" of Japan. Dismissing this as rhetoric to cover up its unjustifiable and criminal intention and mislead the public opinion, the commentary points out that the amendment was aimed to do harm to the other, not to defend itself.
    The amendment is a joint product of the ruling and opposition parties of Japan which seek to win popularity and find a way out by making such a shocking practical action as a "measure of applying economic sanctions to the north" in an effort to win in the election of members of Councilors slated for mid-year in the partisan interests and strategy.
    The commentary brands Japan's passage of the amendment directly hostile to the DPRK as a violation of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration and a politically rash act of bedeviling the improvement process of the DPRK-Japan relations.