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Japan's Demand for "Reinvestigation" Rejected

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- The DPRK feels no need to have inter-governmental contact with Japan any longer now that the "abduction issue" had been settled with the Japanese prime minister's visit to Pyongyang as an occasion and the DPRK has made all sincere efforts it can. And it explicitly states to the Japanese side that there will be no "reinvestigation into the issue".
    Minju Joson today says this in a signed commentary.
    The ultra-right reactionaries of Japan do not wish to tackle the "issue" in the direction of improving the relations with the DPRK but seek to use it as a "playing card" for stepping up their hostile policy towards the DPRK, the news analyst points out, and goes on:
    Their ulterior intention is to keep using the "abduction issue" as a leverage to complicate the situation and orientate the DPRK-Japan relations towards achieving their insidious political purpose.
    The reality urgently requires the DPRK to reformulate its policy towards Japan. There is no other option for the DPRK as it has taken every measure for Japan in good faith.
    As far as the relations with Japan are concerned, there should be only "strong counteraction" against it and the DPRK should not rule out even physical counteraction, if necessary. This is the lesson that the DPRK has drawn from the whole historical course of its contacts with Japan.