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KCNA Blasts Japan's Moves to Apply Economic Sanctions against DPRK

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, October 30 (KCNA) -- The ultra-right conservative forces of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan at the recent first meeting of a "team for a mock test on applying economic sanctions against the DPRK" decided to make public a concrete plan for economic sanctions including a measure to put strict restrictions on "remittance to the north" and its effectiveness. This has stirred up the Koreans' bitter anti-Japanese feelings as the plan is a declaration of confrontation with the DPRK in breach of the spirit of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration.
    Japan organized the team shortly after the new foreign minister asserted that he would not bother to apply economic sanctions against the DPRK. And a guy called the secretary general of the team talked about "effectiveness of pressurization by sanctions". This is a product of the Japanese right-wing forces' deliberate moves to further strain the hostile relations between the DPRK and Japan.
    Paragraph 3 of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration stipulates that both sides shall abide by international law and refrain from any act of threatening the security of the other side. Subject to this, Japan would have had refrained from any act of posing threat to the DPRK's economic activities and deliberately hampering them, to say nothing of applying economic pressure and blockade against it.
    By going frantic in its efforts to put sanctions against the DPRK, pursuant to the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK, in disregard of the above-said principles Japan seeks to pressurize the DPRK and wrest a sort of concession from it over the nuclear and "abduction issues."
    The Japanese reactionaries adopted the "law on economic sanctions against north Korea" and legally adopted economic sanctions against the DPRK as a state policy, claiming that "economic sanctions and blockade are effective weapons for bringing the north to its knees". This meant a declaration by law of an economic war against the DPRK and political and military confrontation with it. Japan has since escalated its undisguised moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK.
    Through its recent decision Japan revealed once again that economic sanctions are, in essence, means for putting pressure upon the DPRK.
    It is by no means fortuitous that the official media of Japan commented that the recent decision is aimed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the "law on foreign exchange" and the "special law on banning portcalls of specified foreign ships" and escalate pressure upon the DPRK.
    These acts, however, will get Japan nowhere. They only betray Japan's despicable nature and weakness and touch off towering hatred toward Japan among the Koreans. The DPRK will take a tough countermeasure against those who encroach upon its sovereignty even a bit.
    Japan should behave itself, pondering over the consequences to be entailed by its moves to apply economic sanctions against the DPRK.