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Japan's Extension of Sanctions against DPRK Flailed

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

   Pyongyang, October 24 (KCNA) -- The current extension of sanctions against the DPRK by Japan is a vivid manifestation of its hostile policy toward the DPRK, observes Rodong Sinmun Wednesday in a signed commentary.
    Noting that this folly clearly reveals the stupidity of political illiterates who go reckless, ignorant of the present trend of the situation and flow of the times, the commentary goes on:
    The gravity of this step lies in that it is coinciding with the time when the points agreed upon at the six-party talks are at the stage of implementation.
    Nearly all parties are doing what they should do under the agreement on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. But Japan only is engaged in dastardly acts causing the concern of others.
    Japan is calling for extending sanctions while persistently raising the abduction issue that had already found a solution, an issue quite irrelevant to the mission and the purport of the six-party talks. One can wager from this that there is no politician capable of seeing far into the future in Japan, though it is dreaming of becoming a political power.
    Still more fantastic is for Japan to advertise sanctions against the DPRK as a "breakthrough" in the solution of the problem. It does not make any sense to talk about normalizing relations while challenging the dialogue partner with sanctions.
    Japan's push to maintain sanctions against the DPRK is a deliberate and premeditated provocation to escalate the confrontation between the DPRK and Japan and put a hurdle in the way of settling the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula.
    Standing glaringly exposed again is the Japanese reactionaries' criminal scheme to secure a pretext for turning Japan into a military giant and realizing its nuclear weaponization by blocking the improvement of the DPRK-Japan relations under the pretext of the abduction issue and curbing the settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula with the breakdown of the six-party talks.
    The present Japanese Cabinet is trying to repeat what the preceding Cabinet did, crying over the abduction issue. This would be a foolish act of following in the woeful footsteps of the predecessor.
    The present Japanese authorities had better draw a lesson from the miserable end of the preceding Cabinet and stop the reckless farce of anti-DPRK sanctions.