North Korea Raps Japan over Abduction Issue

May 12, 2018

Seoul- North Korea criticized Japan on Saturday for raising the issue of Pyongyang's past abductions of Japanese citizens again.

The issue of abductions had already been settled, North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency said in a commentary.

"The reactionaries of Japan are hyping the 'issue of abduction' which had already been settled," the KCNA said. "This is just a mean and foolish behavior to stem the trend of peace on the Korean Peninsula at any cost," it said.

The whole world is zealously welcoming the coming U.S.-North Korean summit "as the first step toward promotion of the positive situation development and building of bright future," the KCNA said.

"However, only Japan goes against this trend," it said.

North Korean-Japanese relations "are, in essence, the relations between victim and assailant," the KCNA said.

"So, the assailant is obliged to make an apology and reparation enough to persuade the victim. This is just the point of the issue," it said.

"Only redemption of past can help Japan," the KCNA said. Jiji Press