KCNA Blasts Japan's Sinister Moves to Scuttle Six-party Talks
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)
Pyongyang, February 9 (KCNA) -- The six-party talks for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula are now underway in Beijing as already reported. Many countries of the world have expressed sympathy with the principled stand of the DPRK to fundamentally settle the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. and hoped the talks would prove fruitful substantially conducive to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
Japan, however, is swimming against such trend of the international community.
This is well proved by the remarks made by its Chief Cabinet Secretary Shiozaki.
When interviewed on Feb. 5 he said it goes without saying that the "abduction issue" is very important for Japan and there can be no normalization of the relations between the two countries unless the "abduction issue" is settled. As if it were not enough with this, he went the lengths of blustering that Japan can not but assert this issue at the six-party talks.
It is not hard to guess how Japan will approach the talks and what attitude it will take at the talks, judging from such reckless remarks made by a guy who professes to be a spokesman for the Japanese government.
Explicitly speaking, the six-party talks are aimed, in name and reality, at solving the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and pending issues between the U.S. and the DPRK related to it, in view of their motive, origin, purport and purpose.
Japan, however, used to vitiate the atmosphere of the talks by persistently raising the "abduction issue" completely irrelevant to the major agenda of the talks.
Commenting on this, China Youth News on Sept. 1, 2003 when the six-party talks have just kicked off published an article titled "The key issue of the six-party talks is the nuclear issue but Japan proposed the 'abduction issue' as a main one" in which it contended that "The scrutiny into how the talks proceeded makes it clear that Japan raised the 'abduction issue' to the DPRK, considering it as the major task of the talks, thus creating greater difficulties in the way of the six-party talks."
It is ridiculous and disgusting, indeed, for Japan to assert that the "abduction issue" should be a main issue to be discussed at the talks and the like though it is not qualified to participate in the talks.
The present reality goes to clearly prove that Japan is not only least interested in the settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula but is deliberately working hard to hamstring the work of the talks.
What matters is why the politicians of Japan are so persistently trying to induce the six-party talks to take up the "abduction issue."
In a word, the Abe government is also keen to use the "abduction issue" as a pretext for evading Japan's responsibility for redressing its past crimes as the preceding regimes did and stir up national chauvinism and bitterness towards the DPRK among its people in a bid to consolidate its political foundation to stay in power unchallenged through the election to the House of Councillors slated to take place in July.
Their behavior cannot be construed otherwise than a mean political mode of political dwarfs.
The DPRK does not care whether the Abe Cabinet stirs up scrambles among different parties and factions to stay in power.
But it can never overlook any act of inciting confrontation with the DPRK with a hue and cry over the "abduction issue" and trying to use it for staying in power though it had already found its solution.
The international community will never tolerate the moves of the politicians of this insular country if the six-party talks remain complicated and fail to produce substantial results due to its wrong doings.
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