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Japan Not Qualified to Participate in Six-party Talks: KCNA

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- Japan has persistently misbehaved in the international arena only to see its poor image sagging. At international meetings now, Japan is behaving rashly, hammering repeatedly away at its chosen theme of "abduction issue", ignorant of their main theme and purport.
    It insisted that "sanctions should not be eased", "north Korea can not sidestep the 'abduction issue' within the framework of the six-party talks" and "Japan is concerned over the U.S. 'perfidy'." This misbehavior on the part of Japan has left a disgusting and unpleasant impression on the international community and media.
    Japan took such approaches at the previous talks, adversely affecting the progress of the talks and becoming a target of accusing fingers. Still today it refuses to abandon this misbehavior.
    Japan is stooping to any infamy in hindering and barring the settlement of a problem in the international political arena to gratify its ambition of ultra-nationalism. This extremely shrewd selfishness is a natural result of the nature of the state of Japan.
    For Abe to make any concession over the "abduction issue" means his political death, considering that he succeeded in assuming the premiership by lifting his approval rating through his hard-line policy toward the DPRK in reliance upon the political foothold of the ultra-right conservative forces.
    Now he finds himself in an embarrassing situation as he is compelled to go against the general trend of the international community in order to pay what he owes to them.
    Japan has entered the new century without settling its crime-woven past in which it brought misfortunes and pains to a countless number of people in the Asia-Pacific region. Now it is vociferating about a "threat" from the DPRK in a bid to cover up its moral vulgarity and create an atmosphere favorable for reviving militarism.
    The settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula at the six-party talks would leave Japan stripped of one of its major pretexts for realizing its militarist ambition to become the leader of Asia. For this reason Japan is resorting to every conceivable means to scuttle the talks.
    The misbehavior of Japan to drive the six-party talks to a collapse by throwing an artificial snag in the way of their progress is inviting criticism and derision.
    It was against this backdrop that Japan made it its state view that "there should be no aid to north Korea unless the abduction issue is solved." In order to get rid of the situation where it stands isolated in the trend of the times, Japan is playing sleight of hand, crying that "if the U.S. pays no heed to the shared understanding, it will inflict a deep wound on the matchless bilateral relations" and "Japan-U.S. alliance will face a crisis if there is any difference in the recognition of threat."
    It is illogical for a country which does not wish to see any success of the talks to involve itself in the talks.
    Japan is not qualified to attend a political dialogue for peace and stability as it is swimming against the trend of the times.