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KCNA Assails Japan's Anti-DPRK Farce

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, January 31 (KCNA) -- The truth about another anti-DPRK burlesque staged by Japan has been disclosed recently to stun the world people. On Jan. 17 the media in Japan released all at once the news that a "scrutiny" of several photos obtained from so-called "defectors from north Korea" confirmed the fact that a man and a woman on the photos were Hiroshi Saito and Kyoko Matsumoto who had been reported missing decades ago.
    Upon hearing this, Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan Hosoda lost no time to call a press conference at which he blustered that "there is new strong evidence," "Japan will urge the north Korean side to provide information about more persons" and "there are more victims."
    Two days later, however, those two persons on the photos showed up in south Korea. They refuted the news, asserting that "they are north Korean defectors residing in south Korea, not Japanese abductees." They released a statement demanding the organization and the media that disclosed and released the photos make formal apologies. The representative of the "Society for the Investigation of the Issue of Particular Persons Missing" that orchestrated the case and the Japanese media busied themselves making apologies and releasing statements of apology for having released misinformation. Japan has thus become a laughing stock of the world people.
    As far as the above-said society is concerned, it earned an ill-fame as an anti-DPRK plot-breeding organization. Its ruckus is nothing new or surprising to the DPRK as it is not the first time that this organization was jeered and censured by the people at home and abroad for orchestrating similar tragicomedies
    Last year witnessed the disclosure of the truth about another case that took people by surprise. It was confirmed 26 years later that Japanese woman teacher Jikako Ishikawa who had been supposed to be abducted by north Korea was murdered on the campus by a Japanese man who worked with her in the same school. The above-said organization was also involved in the case. Another Japanese man named Yoshikazu Saita was ascertained to have been residing in Tokyo at present. The whereabouts of more persons who had been put in the same "category" by this society have been probed in Japan to provoke laughter of the public.
    One of those persons on the photos told media that there were not a few false photos and one of them was the photo of his sister-in-law.
    This gives the lie to the information allegedly gathered and scrutinized by the society and "the list of Japanese abducted by north Korea" worked out by it.
    It is right for one to presume that this society, once it makes up its mind, may employ every possible means and method to dream up whatever farce either under the name of "north Korean defectors" whose addresses, names and identity can hardly be confirmed or by use of latest science and technology.
    What matters is that the chief cabinet secretary who claims to be speaking for Japan's state policy cited the misinformation provided by the society to openly pull up the DPRK, talking about "scrutinized information" and "new strong evidence."
    This is a clear proof that the Japanese government is deeply involved in the anti-DPRK smear campaign launched by the ultra-right wing forces of Japan.
    Japan's much ado about the "photos obtained" only proved that the results of the "thorough investigation" it made as regards the "abduction issue" lacked legal validity and confidence.
    This once again reveals the hypocrisy of the results of the DNA test of the remains of Megumi Yokota announced by Japan a month back, though it asserted that they were "the objective and accurate ones as it was conducted by the country's most competent research institute".
    Japan tried to defend itself, saying that "it once again felt difficulty in identifying the persons on several photos" while handling the kidnapping that took place at home though it is not hard to analyze them and "it apologizes for the mistake", etc. Yet, it still insists on a "thorough examination" of the remains of Yokota it directly received from her husband.
    Lurking behind this is Japan's base and sinister purpose to exploit the abduction issue as a subterfuge to go without liquidating its crime-woven past under the pretext of "people's sentiment" and as leverage for grabbing power, making money and implementing its policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK, toeing the U.S. line.
    Abduction is a deep-rooted crime peculiar to Japan and this evil is still plaguing the Japanese society.
    Japan is the only war criminal state that has not yet redeemed the cases of hideous abduction it has committed against Koreans and other Asians during the war. It is beset with so many cases of abduction that have occurred at home over the past 60 years since the end of the war, the crimes still pending settlement.
    Such being a stark fact, Japan keeps talking about the "abduction" by north Korea. This will get Japan nowhere.
    Japan would be well advised to understand that it would be a proper option for the sake of the Japanese people and in the state interest to work hard to settle its past and thus gain international community's confidence, instead of busing itself with the anti-DPRK smear campaign aimed to please "the superpower".
    Japan should thoroughly probe the truth behind the recent burlesque and punish those responsible for it without delay.