N Korea tells Japan of delay in launching abduction probe panel

Saturday 06th September, 07:10 AM JST

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dr_jones at 01:03 PM JST - 6th September

@reddragonguy: and what do you dream at night?

North Korea is acting like expected, like a small stubborn child: "Hey your not-so-Korea-pampering Taro Aso might be the next prime minister! We'll wait and see what will happen!"
Kapuna at 01:25 PM JST - 6th September

No. Korea backing off an agreement?. Now there's a first.
Anung at 04:24 PM JST - 6th September

Excuses, Excuses, PyongYang is full of crap, all NK is good for is useless propaganda trash, I can't wait until the day that a mass exodus hits that country, and everyone charges the border overwhelming the guards and toppling that useless trash regime.
am1301 at 05:58 PM JST - 6th September

the UN gotta stop giving N. Korea food aid, then maybe they wouldn't be so proud.
smithinjapan at 09:47 PM JST - 6th September

dr_jones: "North Korea is acting like expected, like a small stubborn child: "Hey your not-so-Korea-pampering Taro Aso might be the next prime minister! We'll wait and see what will happen!"

Whether NK is pulling a typical move or not, there is one thing about this move that is NOT typical of NK -- it's actually quite realistic. Let's look at the likely future Prime Minister, Taro Aso. He has a known history of racial slants against even SOUTH Koreans (and has explicitly stated he would be a hard-liner against the North)... and let's not mention how Aso thinks about OTHER Asian neighbours.

So what should NKorea do... fulfill their part of the obligation only to have Aso weasel out later? NKorea did not say they would not comply, in the long wrong... they said they were waiting for the official stance of the new government.

Sorry... but it's utterly reasonable.
smithinjapan at 09:48 PM JST - 6th September

that should be 'in the long run', not 'long wrong'... my bad!
OssanULTRA at 09:56 PM JST - 6th September

"The abductees issue was a myth it was fabricated and untrue"

So are you saying that Kim Jong IL himself lied to Koizumi when he admitted tob the abductions and apologized?
OssanULTRA at 09:59 PM JST - 6th September

I am certain that normally NKorea would have completely reneged on it's agreement to look into the abductions along with it's renegig on iut's 6 party talk comittments. The only thing that could have made NKorea take this moderate stance of not closing the door completely would be a phone call from China telling them not to.
AlfGarnett at 10:05 PM JST - 6th September

Blimey, i don`t understand all this. Why was North Korea kidnapping Japanese people.

Was they trying to get ransom money from the Japanese government, because they are skint? Or was it anotha reason?
smithinjapan at 10:09 PM JST - 6th September

Ossan: "I am certain that normally NKorea would have completely reneged on it's agreement to look into the abductions along with it's renegig on iut's 6 party talk comittments."

Well, you being 'certain' about something doesn't make it so, and you certainly can never prove it would have happened anyway. Fukuda is to blame for this, not NK. Japan has to take responsibility for its own woes.
conqueror_of_Uranus at 10:46 PM JST - 6th September

Blimey, i don`t understand all this. Why was North Korea kidnapping Japanese people.

Was they trying to get ransom money from the Japanese government, because they are skint? Or was it anotha reason?

-AlfGarnett

Japanese citizens were kidnapped by the North Korean govt to be cultural and language advisers for North Korean spies and secret agents.

Hundreds of South Koreans were also kidnapped for the same reason.

Big-time movie buff Kim Jong Ill also had a South Korean Sci-fi movie director kidnapped to make a cheap NKorean rip-off of Godzilla.

NKorea will never demand ransom, as they have yet to admit to (all of) the kidnappings, and claim that the all kidnapped foreigners have died, or wish to remain in NKorea.
GW at 12:46 AM JST - 7th September

C of Uranus

I am no fan what so ever of NK, but they have admitted & returned abductees. Have they come clean on the big picture, maybe........maybe not, but NK doesnt deny they abducted Japanese.

Compare that to Jpn wrt sex slaves, nanjing, unit 731, etc etc etc

again I am no fan of NK, but Jpn & NK are both way way way more alike than either cares to admit
OssanULTRA at 05:20 AM JST - 7th September

"Well, you being 'certain' about something doesn't make it so, and you certainly can never prove it would have happened anyway. Fukuda is to blame for this, not NK. Japan has to take responsibility for its own woes."

smith My being "certain" is merely based on NKorea's past behavior and precedents with regards to any commitments it makes. That you don't share this rather obvious view is evidence of your pro-DPRK stance. Fukuda quitting simply happens to be a convenient excuse for NKorea which you clearly embrace. Had that been the reason given by any "normal" country I would buy it 100%. But not from NKorea.
OssanULTRA at 05:22 AM JST - 7th September

"again I am no fan of NK, but Jpn & NK are both way way way more alike than either cares to admit"

There is one huge difference, and that is that the Imperal Japanese Govt which was responsible for WWII atrocities has been totally destroyed and now dead for some 65 years or so. The Govt of the Kim dynasty which is resonsible for the kidnapping of Japanese and SKorean citizens is still in existence today.
dr_jones at 01:09 PM JST - 7th September

smithinjapan:

"Sorry... but it's utterly reasonable."

No sorry but it's not. Whether Aso becomes Prime Minister or not, it doesn't matter. NK has obligation to get clear about those abductions.

"He has a known history of racial slants against even SOUTH Koreans"

And how many South Koreans have racial slants against Japan because their government is biasing them to that?