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Japan Urged to Lift Sanctions against DPRK

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

   Pyongyang, November 27 (KCNA) -- It is the stand of the DPRK that Japan may go ahead with sanctions against the DPRK if it likes but it should redress its past crimes without fail because it is not the issue that allows Japan to dodge its solution. It is an urgent demand of the times as its solution brooks not a moment's delay.
    Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in its commentary.
    It goes on:
    The Japanese reactionaries recently decided to extend the sanctions against the DPRK six months including an embargo on the DPRK- flagged ships under the pretext of the abduction issue and they are making desperate efforts to deter the United States from delisting the DPRK as a "sponsor of terrorism."
    Japan's move to do harm to the DPRK by slapping sanctions on it over the abduction issue is as foolish and crazy an act as trying to sweep the sea with a broom. The DPRK will remain unfazed even if Japan may extend the sanctions against it several decades.
    As far as the issue of the U.S. option to delist the DPRK as a "sponsor of terrorism" is concerned, this is the measure that cannot be retracted because of Japan's obstruction as the label is unjust. The desperate frenzy on the part of Japan to check the above-said option would get it nowhere because it is the commitment to be fulfilled by the U.S. on the principle of "verbal commitment" and "action for action" agreed upon at the six-party talks. Japan would be well advised to know clearly that its despicable behavior would only bring into spotlight its disgusting colors as a narrow-minded political dwarf.
    There is something to tell Japan loud and clear as it is going busy visiting its U.S. master, lost to all sense of shame.
    Japan has dodged the settlement of its past crimes for more than six decades. There are not a few countries in the world which committed war crimes. But it is only Japan that has played clumsy sleight of hand to cover up so hideous crimes and go without redressing them even in this new century.
    It is the most urgent historic task for Japan to redeem its past wrongs in the light of the need of the times and in view of the gravity of the crimes perpetrated by the Japanese imperialists in the past.
    Japan is a party concerned with the six-party talks aimed at denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula. If Japan wishes the talks successful progress, it should not do anything obstructive to them.
    Japan would be well advised to pay heed to the international public opinion. It would be wise enough for Japan to lift the counter-productive sanctions and honestly apologize for its past crimes and compensate for them just as Germany did and thus behave itself as required by the trend of the times.