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Japan's Plot to Scrap DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration Blasted

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, February 2 (KCNA) -- The Japanese government is now contemplating a tightened "report and information system on remittance to north Korea and taking out money to it" as part of economic sanctions against the DPRK over the "issue of abductees whose fate remains unknown." In this regard Rodong Sinmun today says in a signed commentary:
    The Japanese reactionaries, not content with raising a hue and cry over the "issue of abductees" which had already been settled, raised even "the issue of false remains," a sheer fiction, in a bid to escalate their campaign for sanctions against the DPRK. This anti-DPRK hysteria diametrically runs counter to the present international environment and atmosphere and a deliberate and premeditated vicious plot to scrap the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration in which both sides promised to observe international law and refrain from any act of threatening each other's security.
    Recalling the fact that whenever an opportunity presented itself, the Japanese reactionaries threatened to take "additional measures�h and apply "economic sanctions�h against the DPRK if it does not meet their demands, the commentary goes on:
    The DPRK has already clarified more than once that it would regard any sanctions as a declaration of a war against it and take legitimate self-defence measures to cope with them.
    Defying this warning, the Japanese reactionaries do not hide their intention to take a measure for sanctions against the DPRK. This is nothing but a reckless and extremely provocative act to unilaterally and completely nullify the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration and push the DPRK-Japan relations of confrontation to an explosive point. If the Japanese reactionaries calculate that they can achieve their sinister aim by further straining the relations with the DPRK through sanctions, not away from their viewpoint dating back to the old era, nothing will be more naive and foolish calculation than this.
    The army and people of the DPRK are becoming increasingly assertive that it should not deal with Japan any longer, disgusted with its perfidious and despicable attitude. The DPRK is set to decisively counter Japan�fs moves to apply more sanctions against it with a strong physical measure.