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Rodong Sinmun Assails Japan's Extension of Sanctions against DPRK

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

   Pyongyang, April 18 (KCNA) -- The Japanese authorities decided to extend six months the sanctions against the DPRK including the total embargo on "Mangyongbong-92" and other DPRK-flagged ships at the recent Cabinet meeting. This is the third time Japan took such action against the DPRK.
    Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary terms this action a totally unreasonable and illegal one.
    It goes on:
    The Japanese reactionaries took such action, pulling up the DPRK over the six-party talks and the "abduction issue". This is sheer sophism and a far-fetched assertion.
    The "abduction issue" much touted by the Japanese reactionaries had already found a solution.
    Their action is, in essence, a deliberate political provocation to the DPRK and an open declaration of their intention to push the DPRK-Japan relations to an extreme pitch of tension, torpedo the six-party talks and continue committing the political suppression of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) and Koreans in Japan and violating their rights.
    Unpardonable are the Japanese reactionaries' criminal actions such as treating Chongryon and Koreans in Japan as hostages to put pressure on the DPRK and unhesitatingly perpetrating the political suppression and inhumane atrocities against them.
    Their tightened sanctions against the DPRK are prompted by their sinister political purpose to escalate a siege to it in collusion with the dyed-in-the-wool pro-Japanese Lee Myung Bak group and stifle the DPRK and Chongryon at any cost.
    The Japanese reactionaries' racket for sanctions would only precipitate their own isolation as it creates complexities in the way of the six-party talks and the solution of the nuclear issue and does harm to peace.
    Should they persist in their base and wicked sanctions against the DPRK, swimming against the trend of the times, they will have to pay a dear price for this.