NKorea blames Japan for failed Nuke talks

N Korea: North Korea has blamed Japan on Tuesday for the unsuccessful six-party negotiations on denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

An article published by the North Korean Minju Joson daily criticized statements by the Japanese government spokesman, accusing the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) of withdrawing from those negotiations.

One of Japan’s objectives is to distract attention from its serious political crisis and seeking justification to arm itself with nuclear weapons, the text said.

The negotiations began in 2003, as a Chinese government initiative, and representatives from China, the United States, Russia, Japan, South Korea and the DPRK participated.

The Minju Joson recalled that every time a round of talks began, the Japanese government presented totally irrelevant issues to the negotiations, hindering them and making strenuous efforts to make them fail.

It also said that when all sides chose to keep their promises in the meetings, just Japan refused to do its duties and increased its actions against the DPRK.

At the same time, Tokyo led the campaign to intercept the satellite launched to the space by the DPRK, and encouraged the Security Council to approve a resolution against North Korea, the article said.

This is the reason why the DPRK decided not to participate in the talks under any circumstance, because they had become a platform to violate its sovereignty and disarm it unilaterally.

Pyongyang, Prensa Latina