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KCNA on Japan's Foolish Attempt at "Regional Sanctions" against DPRK

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) -- There is a growing tendency in Japan to intensify economic sanctions against the DPRK. "Measures to Tighten Control over Export at Home and Abroad" released under the pretext of preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and missiles in Asia can be viewed as part of the moves to escalate the sanctions.
    At the Fourth Asia Security Conference in Singapore the Japan Defence Agency chief underlined the need of sanctions, saying that the DPRK's withdrawal from the NPT, its access to nukes and the development and deployment of missiles and their spread constitute factors of instability in the region and that of the international community.
    This once again betrays the Japanese reactionaries' strategic attempt at "economic sanctions" against the DPRK whose aim is to isolate and strangle it.
    Japan adopted the "law on economic sanctions against north Korea" and "law on the special measure to ban portcalls of specified ships" and retrogressively revised "law on foreign currency", thus adopting the economic sanctions against the DPRK as its state policy. It even asserted the need to apply sanctions against the DPRK even single-handedly to cope with the "threat" from it.
    It has favored the U.S. and other Western countries' steps for sanctions under the pretext of "international cooperation". Tokyo is now wooing Asian countries to get involved in the issue of the DPRK-Japan relations of confrontation in a bid to expand and tighten economic sanctions against the DPRK.
    The reality goes to prove that Japan has become evermore undisguised and entered a reckless phase in its hostile policy toward the DPRK.
    The "regional economic sanctions" are a wanton violation of the UN Charter and a serious infringement upon the sovereignty of the DPRK.
    The charter does not allow sanctions and blockade against other countries in any case. Japan should therefore refrain from deliberately posing any threat and laying any obstacle to the DPRK's economic activities, to say nothing of imposing economic pressure and blockade upon it.
    The DPRK's nukes and missiles are not meant to threaten others but to defend itself, to all intents and purposes. The "nuclear and missile threats" from the DPRK are nothing but sheer sophism made by the U.S. and its leverage for pressurizing Pyongyang.
    Japan must be aware of this. However, it seeks a sinister aim through its moves to tighten the economic sanctions against the DPRK under the pretext of "nuclear and missile threats" from it. It is keen to go nuclear by joining the U.S. in its moves to stifle the DPRK and strain the regional situation in a bid to create an atmosphere favorable for staging a comeback to Korea.
    Japan would be well advised to stop going reckless.
    Its moves to escalate the tensions under the pretext of "threat" from the DPRK would only invite stronger rebuff at the debate on the regional issues.
    The Japanese reactionaries would be gravely mistaken if they think their sanctions could frighten the DPRK or bring it to its knees.