KCNA Commentary Censures Japan for Checking Trend towards Peace

Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- Japan reveals its true colors as the one that does not want peace with each passing day.

It is childishly acting by implicating France in naval interception against the DPRK, not content with going busy with it together with the riffraff while talking about the possibility of the latter's transshipment.

Appreciating France's joining with Japan as a part of supporting an operation for monitoring the said transshipment, the Japanese ministry of Defence announced that "it hails France in view of the united efforts of the international community and will as ever closely cooperate with the relevant countries".

Japan's disgraceful behavior is being strongly denounced by the public as it is the last-ditch effort to check the trend towards peace on the Korean peninsula and in the region.

It is the trend of the times and unanimous demand of the world community to defuse tension and ensure permanent and durable peace on the peninsula.

That's why many countries including those around the peninsula express support for the development of the positive situation in the peninsula and the region and strongly call for lifting the sanctions against the DPRK.

Nevertheless, Japan incites the pressure upon the DPRK, swimming against the trend.

Clear is its aim of eagerly inveigling countries out of the region into its moves for escalating tension.

As known, Japan has been isolated and rejected by the regional states since long ago, owing to its ambition for a military giant and overseas expansion.

Moreover, the atmosphere of détente created by the DPRK's proactive measures brings Japan's bad image as the destroyer of peace into bold relief and throws a shadow over its moves for reinvasion.

Japan, much upset by this, is making desperate efforts to get rid of a dilemma while turning its attention to "cooperation" with countries out of the Asia-Pacific region.

It is the real intention of the Japanese reactionaries to show their existence by inveigling countries out of the region into monitoring the DPRK's activities under the pretext of the implementation of the UN Security Council's "sanctions resolutions" and thus provide an environment favorable for militarization.

However, the more persistently the Abe group resorts to its hostile policy towards the DPRK, the more clearly it shows its miserable position marginalized by the trend of situation.

The people in the region and world community will never pardon the Japanese reactionaries hell-bent on laying a grave obstacle on the way of peace on the Korean peninsula with their reckless moves for naval interception against the DPRK.

Japan will be left out of the positive situational trend and thus lose even its miserable existence. -0-