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KCNA Refutes Sankei Shimbun's False Report

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- Typical reptile paper of the Japanese ultra-right conservative forces Sankei Shimbun again spread misinformation to tarnish the international image of the DPRK. Recently it reported that a six-member Iranian technical delegation comprising physicists and computer experts entered north Korea in May and they are expected to conduct a joint test of detonating devices for nuclear bombs involving the examination of neutron by using nuclear facilities in north Korea for six months starting from July.
    According to information available from a relevant institution, there had been no deal in the field of nuclear technology between the DPRK and Iran and no delegation on such mission came here, either.
    However, Sankei Shimbun told such a whopping lie. It was nothing but a cynical ploy to galvanize the world public opinion and put pressure upon the DPRK, taking advantage of the U.S. moves to charge the DPRK with the nuclear proliferation.
    Recently the U.S. has increased its pressure upon Iran to open to public the "nuclear activities including its secret nuclear weapons program" while putting in motion some Western countries and the IAEA. It is now foolishly attempting to deliberately link the DPRK to it.
    In February the U.S. met strong public criticism for having faked up the story about the "transfer of technology for the development of nuclear weapons" to the DPRK by a Pakistani nuclear scientist. Far from drawing a proper lesson from this precedent, the U.S. cooked up and floated the fiction about Iranian-north Korean "joint test of detonating devices for nuclear bombs" only to reveal its true colors as a centre for hatching despicable plots.
    The U.S. backtracked from the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework after fabricating the story about the DPRK's "enriched uranium program." It is now throwing a hurdle in the way of settling the nuclear issue, persistently insisting on this issue at the six-party talks, too.
    Sankei Shimbun can never escape public condemnation for having released such a false report to join the U.S. in its smear campaign and operation to isolate and stifle the DPRK.
    This newspaper has not yet dropped its bad habit of seeking its own interests by sowing seeds of dissension among other countries and nations. This time, too, it openly spread sheer misinformation in a bid to fool the world public opinion and fish in troubled waters.
    The Japanese society and media need to deplore its wrong doing before anybody else and to be cautious about this practice of telling sheer lies to speak for the U.S. though it professes to be an influential paper in Japan.