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Japan Not Qualified to Participate in Six-way Talks

KCNA

nbsp;   Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- Japan is working hard to include the "abduction issue" in the agenda of the six-way talks. Abe, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, and other heavyweights of Japan on various occasions worked hard to galvanize public opinion saying that the "abduction issue should be discussed in the six-way talks" and "it is necessary to comprehensively settle abduction, nuclear and missile issues" in reference to the agenda of the next round of the talks. They are busy with diplomacy to solicit support of different countries for its claim.
    This is an improper act intended to use the talks for attaining Japan's sinister aim and deliberately creating an obstacle in the way of the talks for the settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S.
    In fact, Japan is not interested in the earlier negotiated settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula. It is related to the sinister political and military purposes sought by the ruling circles of Japan at present.
    Japan has worked hard to turn the domestic political trend to the right and step up its militarization under the pretext of the nuclear issue on the Korea peninsula. It is its contention that a solution to the nuclear issue and the defusion of the tension there would make the theory of a "threat from north Korea" no longer sound plausible as Tokyo has used it as a good excuse for executing its strategy to emerge a military giant including nuclear weaponization.
    That's why Japan is paying attention to the "abduction issue" only while deliberately ignoring the nuclear issue.
    As far as the "abduction issue" much publicized by Japan is concerned, the issue is an abnormal one raised amidst the long-standing hostile relationship between the DPRK and Japan as the latter has pursued a hostile policy toward the former for over half a century while refusing to redeem the crimes committed by the latter against Koreans in the past. This issue had already been settled with the adoption of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration as a momentum and therefore, there is no ground whatsoever for Japan to link this issue to the nuclear issue.
    What matters is that the U.S. is backing Japan in its moves to include the "abduction issue" in the agenda of the six-way talks.
    This is clearly proved by the fact that U.S. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kelly and others recently visited Japan one after another and asserted that the U.S. would support Japan in raising abduction cases. This can not be construed otherwise than a revelation of a sinister intention of the U.S. to deliberately create an obstacle in the way of the next round of the talks by placing the issue on its agenda just as it did at the previous Beijing talks during which it further complicated the DPRK-U.S. nuclear issue, a thorny one, by raising Japan-proposed "abduction issue" at them.
    Japan should not be allowed to participate in the talks as it is persistently trying to bring up the "abduction issue" for discussion at the talks, backed by the U.S.
    Japan abducted and forcibly drafted more than 8.4 million Koreans in the past. Pretending not to know about this hard fact it is vociferating about the abduction of a few Japanese in a bid to poke its nose into the talks and create a complication there.
    This behaviour has deprived Japan of any qualification to be a trustworthy dialogue partner.