North Korea-Japan relations will never improve if Japan continues to link their improvement with a bilateral dispute over North Korea’s past abductions of Japanese nationals, North Korea’s state-run media said Thursday.
In a lengthy commentary, the Korean Central News Agency said that North Korea has not forgiven Japan for forcing many Korean women into sexual slavery and taking many Korean men to Japan during World War II, and that it will make the country pay.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
South Korea wants Japan to give aid to the North.
That takes some balls, doesn't it? Here's today's story from the AP, and here's a little about the abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea that took place between 1977 and 1983. Here's some more on the topic, too, from One Free Korea who has some interesting stuff in his "Japan & Korea" category, including a link to February article that quotes a release from North Korea's KCNA which said, in part:
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Yeah. watch the master plan unfold as Kim Jong-Il starves entire regions to death in order to cow Japan into submission.
It's such a tragedy -- the guy is so deluded from reading his own press releases -- is there any person anywhere else in the world who takes aid donations as a sign of subservience? Really, the stalemate will never end as long as his head is so far up his ass we can't even agree with him on the facts of the situation.
Japan isn't gonna give them anything.
I wish all of them would stop with the 'victim' crap. They did their dirt a long time ago. It's time to move on.
such a sad event..:(
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