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Japan's Perfidy to DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration Assailed

KCNA

    Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionary rulers recently passed the "amendment to the law on foreign exchange" through the House of Representatives and adopted it as a state policy to apply economic sanctions against the DPRK. This diametrically runs counter to the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration, says Rodong Sinmun Tuesday in a signed commentary. The commentary goes on:
    Article 3 of the declaration published in September 2002 confirmed that both sides shall observe international law and refrain from doing any act of threatening the security of the other side.
    Japan, however, passed the amendment through the Diet which allows it to stop the remittance to the DPRK and trade with it and put in motion the measure of unilaterally applying sanctions against the DPRK without any UN resolution or international agreement.
    The DPRK has done everything it could to respect and implement the declaration ever since its publication. Japan, however, has since openly violated it and escalated its anti-DPRK moves.
    With nothing can Japan justify its reckless perfidious act of violating the declaration.
    Japan will have to be held wholly responsible for the catastrophic consequences to be caused to the bilateral relations by its rash acts, the commentary warns.