http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/16241
2022.12.13.
Japanese government has started a nationwide anti-DPRK “human rights” racket again, advocating the “resolution of abduction issue”.
A “symposium” under the theme of “international cooperation to resolve the abduction issue” was held in Tokyo on Dec 10, 2022 in the presence of the chief cabinet secretary.
The Japanese government, having designated the period of Dec 10-16 as an “enlightenment week on north Korean human rights violation”, stages an anti-DPRK “human rights” racket on annual basis.
This is a part of its persistent anti-DPRK political stratagem and a smear campaign levelling at our dignified Republic as well as an attempt to cover up its own mega-scale crime against humanity.
Japan is a criminal state with a criminal record in the last century. It annexed Korea by means of force, slaughtered more than a million Koreans, forcibly drafted and abused more than 8.4 million Koreans as if they were slaves, reduced 200,000 Korean women into sex slaves of Japanese army. But it hasn’t yet liquidated its past mega-scale crimes against humanity for as long as eighty years. That such a country is talking about “human rights” is a height of absurdity in itself.
It is crystal clear that the Japanese government is now hosting the “seminar” on the abduction issue with the purpose of “isolating” our country internationally, taking advantage of the anti-DPRK “human rights” stratagem of the U.S. and the West.
One would discern as such with little difficulty considering the following: The organizations and individuals that presented their “name cards” to the “seminar” are, without exception, either those who had been involved in the anti-DPRK political stratagem in the UN arena under the pretext of “human rights”, or the plot-breeding organizations and the riff-raffs within Japan that had been squandering the “abduction budget” of the government.
Let me reiterate that we remain unwavering in our stand to the abduction issue that it had already been resolved irreversibly and completely through our sincerity and efforts.
What is all the more pressing internationally is rather the issue of Japan’s liquidation of its past mega-scale crimes against humanity, i.e. the forced abduction and drafting of Koreans and the issue of sexual slavery perpetrated by the former Japanese army, to which no statute of limitations applies, and the resolution of which does not allow further delay.
Contemptible anti-DPRK stratagem of Japanese concoction will only incur its own moral disgrace and destruction.
Ri Pyong Dok
Researcher of the Institute for Studies of Japan
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DPRK
