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Japan's "Diplomatic Blue Paper" Slammed

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- Japan in the "Diplomatic Blue Paper" for 2004 released recently again pulled up the DPRK, pretending to be interested in world peace and stability. Minju Joson today in a signed commentary says in this regard: This is, in essence, another political plot to brand the DPRK as the principal disturber of peace and stability in Northeast Asia and the rest of the world, justify its hostile policy towards the DPRK aimed to stifle it under that pretext and, furthermore, realize its wild ambition for militaristic overseas aggression.
    It goes on:
    The DPRK was compelled to take a legitimate self-defensive measure to defend the sovereignty of the country and the security of the state. Japan, however, is escalating its hostile policy towards it, faulting even this.
    This is clearly proved by the fact that Japan is set to pass the "bill on banning the portcall of specified ships" through the Diet in the wake of its passage of the "amendment to the law on foreign exchange," a bill on economic sanctions against the DPRK, in a bid to isolate and suffocate the DPRK economically.
    Through this, Japan seeks to completely blockade the DPRK, form an international siege to it and realize military cooperation with the U.S. aimed at stifling the DPRK in a bid to settle the issue of the bilateral relations by force of arms.
    ¡¡Yet, Japan is pulling up the DPRK, paying lip-service to world peace and stability. This reminds one of a thief shouting "Stop the thief!"
    Japan is chiefly to blame for having rendered the situation in and around the Korean peninsula unstable. All sorts of anti-DPRK hostile acts perpetrated by Japan along with its smear campaign against it only disclose its stance and true colours as a harasser of peace before the international community.
    If Japan is truly interested in peace and stability in the region it should not drive the situation to a crisis but liquidate its crime-woven past in the basic spirit of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration, abandon its ambition to emerge a military power and realize overseas expansion and stop blindly toeing the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK.
    Japan is well advised to think twice about what it should do before pulling up the DPRK.