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DPRK to React to Japan with Toughest Countermeasure

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, February 28 (KCNA) -- The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan reportedly approved a draft outline of the bill banning the call of specified foreign ships at Japanese ports and Abe, secretary general of the party, referring to it at a press interview, asserted that "this bill would be applicable to no other country but north Korea." His remarks indicated that those specified foreign ships precisely meant the DPRK's ships including Mangyongbong-92. Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun today says:
    This move of Japan is a wanton violation of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration, the UN Charter and international law and a serious infringement upon the sovereignty of the DPRK as such move is aimed to strangle it at any cost by applying economic sanctions against it. The DPRK will react to Japan's move with the toughest countermeasure.
    Japan's adoption of this legislation would ban the entry of the DPRK's ships at Japanese ports. This would mean sanctions and pressure upon the DPRK much stronger than "the amendment to the law on foreign exchange" which can only ban remittance.
    It is an ulterior aim sought by the Japanese reactionaries to escalate hostile policy toward the DPRK and bring down the socialist system in the DPRK, pursuant to the U.S. imperialists' offensive to tighten the economic sanctions against the DPRK.
    The Japanese reactionaries' noisy call for economic sanctions against the DPRK is only touching off bitterer hatred and resentment of Koreans at Japan. The DPRK has already clarified more than once that it would regard any sanctions to be applied against it as a declaration of war and would take a self-defensive measure to cope with it. The DPRK will immediately take the strongest countermeasure once it judges that the Japanese reactionaries have infringed upon its sovereignty by applying economic sanctions against it.
    Japan will have to bear full responsibility for all the catastrophic consequences to be brought by its moves to the bilateral relations, the commentary warns.