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Japan's Passage of Amendment to Law on Foreign Exchange Assailed

KCNA

    Pyongyang, February 3 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionaries recently passed the "amendment to the law on foreign exchange" through the House of Representatives. This is a wanton violation of international law and a serious infringement upon the sovereignty of the DPRK as it is aimed to strangle the DPRK economically and isolate and stifle it in line with the U.S. imperialists' hostile policy toward the DPRK. Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in a signed commentary. Lurking behind the Japanese reactionaries' hasty passage of the law through the Diet is a foolish aim to pressurize the DPRK and wrest a sort of concession from it over the DPRK-U.S. nuclear issue and the abduction issue. Another aim sought by them through this legislation is to win popularity and win the upcoming election to the members of the House of Councilors, the commentary says, and goes on:
    The DPRK has already clarified more than once that it would regard any sanctions against it as a declaration of a war and take legitimate self-defensive measures to cope with them.
    However, the Japanese reactionaries are openly calling for applying economic sanctions against the DPRK. This is a deliberate and premeditated provocative move to bedevil the relations between the DPRK and Japan and ignite a new war on the Korean peninsula.
    No one can vouch that the amendment to the law would not drive the DPRK-Japan relations to an unpredictable phase. It would not only be confined to this. This would render the situation on the Korean peninsula and in Northeast Asia tenser and bring about unpredictably catastrophic consequences.
    Japan is now set to apply provocative economic sanctions against the DPRK while talking about its participation in the six-way talks. The DPRK will never remain a passive on-looker to it.
    It is the disposition of the DPRK to return retaliation for retaliation and react to the hard-line with the toughest stand.
    Japan's behavior is little short of lifting an axe to drop it on one's foot. Japan would be well advised to stop such foolish an act as trying to strangle the DPRK through such a mean way as economic sanctions.