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KCNA Blasts Japanese Heavyweight's Cry for Economic Sanctions against DPRK

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, February 26 (KCNA) -- The cry made by Acting Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan Abe for applying economic sanctions against north Korea is stirring up public furor nowadays. As a politician representing the ultra-right conservative forces of Japan he blustered this year that "3-4 weeks deadline should be set for north Korea over the abduction issue and Japan should start applying economic sanctions against north Korea according to its response and that it would be appropriate to announce the application of sanctions in February".
    Abe must know well that talking about economic sanctions against north Korea would be unbecoming in any case for a politician who has been involved in the settlement of bilateral issues for the past years as a heavyweight of the ruling party.
    While working as deputy chief cabinet secretary and secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, he blustered that Japan should not comply with north Korea's request for compensation and that it should apply sanctions against north Korea even single-handedly under the pretext of "abduction issue." Toward the end of last year he even let loose sophism that only pressure will work on north Korea and time has come to apply economic sanctions and that such measure may force north Korea to change its policy, etc.
    He visited Pyongyang as a member of the Japanese side's delegation.
    However, he feigned ignorance of the fact that the abduction issue had already been solved and is now playing a leading part in the scenario to apply sanctions against the DPRK, using the issue as a playing card. This can not be construed otherwise than a mean behavior aimed to deliberately scuttle the implementation of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration and an improper act which can be committed only by a militarist steeped in the bitterness towards the DPRK to the marrow of his bone.
    What should not be overlooked is that his malarkey has something in common with the anti-north Korea ruckus kicked up by the government to impose sanctions on north Korea.
    Shortly ago, the chief executive of Japan asserted it is quite natural that the demand for economic sanctions against north Korea is mounting in Japan, saying that "the request for applying sanctions against north Korea has grown strong in Japan to an undeniable extent" and that "we want north Korea to be more sincere."
    The government and the ruling party fabricated the "story about false remains" and have since gone ahead with considering ways for applying sanctions. They are now talking about 5-phase "proposal for the application of economic sanctions against north Korea."
    Economic sanctions are the strategic method conceived by the Japanese reactionaries to stifle the DPRK.
    Now they have gone beyond such limit and reached the phase where to legislate on economic sanctions against north Korea as a state policy and put it into practice.
    Explicitly speaking, the economy in the DPRK is not such an economy that would shake or collapse due to sanctions as it was built in the spirit of self-reliance.
    The Japanese government is working hard to convince the international community of the necessity to apply economic sanctions against north Korea, even seriously desecrating its idea of humanitarianism over the "abduction issue' in defiance of the reality. This clearly shows to what extremes their hostile policy toward the DPRK has gone.
    What is ludicrous is that such guys as Abe who is ignorant of the might and potential of the self-reliant national economy of north Korea and who do not even want to know about it are trying to use the economic sanctions as a means for winning their political clout, talking about its effectiveness, pursuant to the government's policy.
    The above-said behavior of the ultra-right hardliners including Abe is nothing but a political chicanery of political philistines to hold important posts in the next government.
    The army and people in the DPRK can not repress their bitter indignation at Japan as it is going crazy in its moves against the DPRK, talking about sanctions and pressure, far from redressing its crime-woven past even in this new century.
    The Japanese reactionaries' anti-north Korea ruckus to apply sanctions against it and pressurize it only compel its army and people to harden their resolution to certainly settle accounts with Japan, their sworn enemy.