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Japan's Revised Law Lambasted in DPRK

KCNA

    Pyongyang, February 3 (KCNA) -- Japan's reckless policy against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has enraged the Korean people. Thae Hyong Chol, president of the Academy of Social Sciences, said the "amendment to the law on foreign exchange" passed through the House of Representatives of Japan on Jan. 29 was a token of the anti-DPRK hysteria kicked off by those bereft of reason.
    In an interview with KCNA, he said:
    Japan apparently hopes for a concession from the DPRK, believing that the adoption of the bill would be an "immeasurable economic and mental blow to north Korea". But its hope is foolish.
    No matter how desperately Japan may try to stifle the DPRK economically, the Korean people will never be afraid of it. They made tireless efforts to effect a radical turn in the building of a great prosperous powerful nation in reliance upon the already laid foundations of the independent national economy, considering the dignity and sovereignty of the nation as their life and soul even in the period of the "arduous march" and forced march. Japan knows nothing of the Korean people.
    Ko Jung Ho, a general of the Korean People's Army, told KCNA that the adoption of the bill, aimed to impose economic sanctions on the DPRK, was an all-out challenge to it.
    The Korean army and people will never look with folded arms on Japan's undisguised provocation, he said, and continued:
    The Japanese authorities, availing themselves of the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK, have persistently threatened and blackmailed our country, instead of making an apology and compensation for Japan's crimes against the Korean people. Japan would be well advised to clearly know that it is the spirit of the DPRK to answer retaliation with retaliation and counter a tough policy with tougher countermeasures.
    If Japan persistently resorts to the anti-DPRK policy, our army and people will surely make it pay a very high price for its hostile policy.