Japan must do what it should do

It was reported recently that the Japanese Diet passed a resolution on extending six months the sanctions on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, including ban to DPRK vessels’ entrance into Japan and import embargo on DPRK goods.

On the other hand, Tokyo sent Cabinet secretary-general, supra-party dietmen and even families of "abductees" to the United State for the purpose of dissuading Washington from striking the DPRK off the list of “terrorism-sponsoring nations”.

The obstinate sanctions against the DPRK the Japanese reactionaries employ on the cloak of “abduction issue” are part of the reckless behaviors of the political greenhorns who do not know what they should do.

The extension of the sanction period is a silly move ignorant of the Korean people’s faith and temper.

The reactionary forces of the world have persistently committed different sorts of sanctions against the DPRK. Under the circumstances, however, the Korean people have been expediting the construction of a prosperous powerful nation on their own way, thus displaying their faith and temper to the world. Even if Japan extends the sanctions six months or decades of years, however, it will never frighten the Korean people. It will do nothing but reveal the poor position of the Japanese reactionaries, political greenhorns, who cannot but employ such a bungling step as the sanction. It is no better than a bubble before a big rock.

The alleged “abduction issue” is also a trite. The international community focuses its denunciation on Tokyo’s shirking of its responsibility for the settlement of Japan’s past crimes rather than on the alleged “abduction issue”.

Since the UN human rights body and the international women’s court to try the past sexual slavery system for Japanese troops resolved that Japan must take legal responsibility for the sexual slavery system and the US Congress and other parliaments of different countries adopted resolutions related with Japan's past crimes, stirring worldwide attention. The International Herald Tribune of the United States carried an article which, noting different attitudes of Germany and Japan toward the past crimes, urged Tokyo to follow Berlin in its moves for universal reconciliation.

As a member of the six-party talks, in particular, Japan must refrain from creating obstacles to the progress of the talks.

The problem of striking the DPRK off the list of “terrorism-sponsoring nations” was stipulated by the “word-to-word, action-to-action” principle; it cannot be done otherwise, however persistently Japan  may persuade its senior ally.  

Without settling the past crimes completely, Japan cannot renew it into a normal state. Tokyo had better know it and do what it should do rather than to resort to the sanctions. It must settle the past crimes sincerely and completely and thus fulfill its responsibility on victim nations to get international cognition. It must see the international tendency and have a sincere attitude toward the settlement of the past crimes.