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KCNA attacks Japan's hostile action against DPRK ship

KCNA

    Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) -- Nowadays, the Japanese authorities are persistently pursuing a hostile policy towards the DPRK, in support of the U.S. strategy aimed to stifle the DPRK. Such policy has clearly been evidenced by the fact that they used the largest security forces and means to check the service of DPRK's ship "Mangyongbong-92". This cannot but be taken as a serious development.
    Such action is a sinister move to impair the growing international prestige of the DPRK and sap its influence. It is also one more political repression of Chongryon (General Association of Korean Residents in Japan), a dignified overseas citizens organization of the DPRK, and Korean residents in Japan.
    This is an intolerable breach of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration, in which the two countries agreed to settle their unpleasant past and establish fresh good-neighborly and friendly relations, and a grave provocation endangering the destiny and the prospect of the declaration.
    Over the past ten-odd years the ship "Mangyongbong-92" has sailed from Wonsan to Niigata as a symbol of humanitarianism and DPRK-Japan friendship, doing nothing contrary to the Japanese and international laws.
    Nevertheless, the Japanese authorities have branded this unsuspicious ship as a "ship for illegal remittance", "spy ship" and "carrier of nuclear and missile components". Under the pretext of "inspection" of the ship, they set in motion relevant ministries and agencies and sent at least 10 vessels of the maritime safety agency and nearly 2,000 security agents to Niigata port, creating a terror-ridden atmosphere that can be seen only in case of emergency so as to prevent the ship from entering the port.
    The Japanese authorities have long resorted to all sorts of wrongdoings targeted against the ship. Finding it impossible to stop the ship from making service on the strength of the present law, the authorities called for "inspection of equipment" of the ship all of sudden although it is equipped with modern facilities and has provided routine services without an accident so far and went to the lengths of resorting to such a mean act of putting a brake on its routine service.
    All the facts suffice to prove that the Japanese reactionaries' moves against the DPRK are being put into mean and dangerous practice beyond the smear campaign.
    What is serious is that the Japanese government is playing the role of a shock brigade in carrying out the "further steps" and the "hard-line measures" against the DPRK discussed at the summit talks of the U.S., Japan and South Korea as regards the DPRK's "nuclear issue," while becoming more undisguised in its hostile policy towards the DPRK.
    By preventing the service of Mangyongbong-92 the Japanese authorities more glaringly revealed their unethical and immoral true nature as they did not hesitate to infringe upon the humanitarian idea and even the international relations to carry out the U.S. policy to stifle the DPRK.
    If this means the start of their "sanctions" against the DPRK, it would entail very serious consequences. The Japanese authorities should mind p's and q's about it.
    If the authorities keep barring the service of the ship despite the DPRK's warnings, it will be compelled to take a necessary countermeasure and Japan will be held wholly accountable for all the ensuing consequences.