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Japan Strongly Warned against Its Application of Sanctions against DPRK

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, February 26 (KCNA) -- Acting Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan Abe in a recent lecture blustered that "now is the time for Japan to impose economic sanctions upon north Korea," saying "it should apply them against it even this month". Rodong Sinmun Saturday says in a signed commentary in this regard:
    The DPRK can not but regard the move of Japan to impose economic sanctions upon the DPRK as a serious development as it goes against the trend in the new century in which people are heading for peace, detente and cooperation and the spirit of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration.
    This is the escalation of the rash anti-DPRK campaign kicked up by the Japanese ultra-right conservatives, pursuant to the U.S. policy.
    Through the move to "apply economic sanctions against north Korea" they seek a sinister aim to win political clout, the commentary observes, and goes on:
    The undisguised option taken by the Japanese reactionaries to impose economic sanctions upon the DPRK is a deliberate, premeditated and grave provocation as it is intended to further strain the DPRK-Japan relations of confrontation and spark a new war on the Korean Peninsula. This is little short of a formal declaration of political and military showdown with the DPRK.
    The hostile relations between the DPRK and Japan are inching close to a dangerous situation on the eve of a war, after going beyond the tolerance limit. This compels the DPRK to take a decisive counter measure. Its army and people regard sovereignty as their life and soul and do not allow anyone to infringe upon it even a bit. They will strongly react to Japan's action to impose sanctions upon the DPRK with self-defensive retaliatory measures.
    Japan will be wholly to blame for the catastrophic crisis in the bilateral relations.