7 Comments

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  rjd_jr at 08:35 AM JST - 14th June

  Money (and other forms of aid) talks!

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  some14some at 08:42 AM JST - 14th June

  Japan partially gave in to US-NK alliance.

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  OssanULTRA at 09:20 AM JST - 14th June

  NK gave in to Japan in order to get the US to remove it from the terrorist list.

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  MisterM at 11:07 AM JST - 14th June

  North Korean government is not worth of trust.

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  Pukey2 at 11:21 AM JST - 14th June

  Lip service? The North Korean and Japanese governments sure seemed to be enjoying all this chitchat over the past few years. Are they both being paid a lot to pretend to be doing something?

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  timorborder at 12:14 PM JST - 14th June

  It will be interesting to see if the "Great Leader" Kim Jong Ill will be able to make the abductees arise from the dead.

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  Hikozaemon at 03:09 PM JST - 14th June

  I believe that the term used is "apologist". Youdontknow simply doesn't want anyone criticising Kim Jong Il, and so brings up irrelevant diversions when faced with a black and white case where his beloved North Korean government could appear wrong, and the horrible awful Japanese government is right.

  The strangling of travel links and remittances from North Koreans in Japan is probably the most significant sanction currently in place against Kim Jong Il. That combined with all the other inconveniences of being on the US State Department list of governments that sponsor state terrorism (a list that Japan will not let Democratic Korea get off until it comes clean on the civilians its government abducted) meant that at last some progress can be made.

  I don't see what the Democratic Koreans have to worry about - a bit of embarrassment, but it isn't like anybody in DPRK is going to find out about any admissions like this until the day that the regime collapses, and any cooperation will be to ensure that such a day never comes.

  My only hope is that even when the Japanese abductee issue is resolved, Japan will keep speaking up for the human rights of those hundreds of South Korean abductees, and the tens of thousands of Koreans in concentration camps in the North, that the South has sold down the river for the sake of stability. That is the most serious crime of the regime there, that nobody is doing anything at all about.

  No doubt when Japan starts criticizing Kim Jong Il for having political concentration camps, he will start then bringing up the issue of unpaid overtime in Japan. It's sick that people in free societies are so willing to stand up for criminals like Kim Jong Il.

  Peace

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