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KCNA Denounces Japan for Bringing Clouds over Six-party Talks

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- From the beginning of the year some countries are trying to link the six-party talks, which draws attention and expectation from the international community, with their own interests. Japan is one of them.
    Japan was qualified to take part in the six-party talks with the help of the United States. Now it is persisting in its stand that the "matter of abduction," a DPRK-Japan bilateral issue which has nothing to do with the settlement of the nuclear issue, should be taken up at the next round of the six-party talks. There are coming from the ministerial and opposition parties of Japan, including the quarters in power, voices that "Japan is going to solve not only the abduction issue but also the nuclear and missile issues in package at the six-party talks". Viewed against this background, it is no exaggeration to say that it is the official stand of the present authorities of Japan to lay the "abduction issue" before the talks again, putting it on a par with the nuclear issue, and it holds the predominant place in their policy towards the DPRK. In a nutshell, Japan is not interested in the settlement of the main issue at the six-party talks but is seeking to fish in the troubled waters there.
    As already known, Japan spoiled the climate of the meeting and threw artificial hurdles in the way of the discussion of the agenda in a series of talks hither-to by bringing up the "abduction issue" out of place, contending that the nuclear issue must not be the only agenda item.
    Under the title "The main point of the six-party talks was the nuclear issue, but Japan's principal theme was the abduction issue," a foreign press report said:
    "The main task of the six-party talks in Beijing was to dispel the nuclear crisis and achieve a durable peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.
    Reviewing the course of the talks, however, one can see that Japan suggested the abduction issue to the DPRK, making it the main subject of the talks, thereby causing greater troubles in the way of the talks. Japan had busied itself with lobbying to lay the abduction issue on the conference table. The six-party talks are to settle the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula peacefully."
    This is an objective description of Japan's approach to the talks.
    What is unequivocal here is that Japan is seeking its political aim by creating complications over the "abduction issue" which has already been settled in an effort to evade the settlement of its past crimes, far from wanting the discussion of the nuclear issue at the six-party talks.
    We cannot help feeling disgust at sitting face to face with Japan at the multi-party conference table.
    As we declared earlier, we will thoroughly reconsider the matter of taking part in the six-party talks with Japan.