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DPRK vows to take self-defense measure against Japan's sanctions

PLA Daily 2004-02-13

PYONGYANG, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Thursday that it would take a resolute counter-measure against Japan's newly adopted "amendment to the law on foreign exchange."

"We would regard any economic sanctions against us as a declaration of war and take a resolute counter-measure for self-defense," the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a commentary.

The KCNA said Japan was keen to isolate and stifle the DPRK by adopting the policy to impose economic sanctions against the DPRK.

"This is a wanton violation of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration issued in September 2002," said the commentary, adding that "This is hardening the determination of the DPRK army and people toward Japan which has brought all sorts of pain and misfortune to the Korean nation in the past to fully settle accounts with it."

The House of Councilors of Japan on Monday passed the "amendment to the law on foreign exchange," after it was approved by the House of Representatives on Jan. 29.