TOKYO, Dec 10 Kyodo The National ...

TOKYO, Dec 10 Kyodo

The National Police Agency (NPA) warned of possible North Korean threats against Japan in its fiscal 2002 report forward public safety released Tuesday, saying the North ''could accelerate malicious activities against Japan to obtain economic assistance.''

The report warned about public safety threats including those pos through more than 200,000 foreigners staying in Japan illegally and international crime organizations that have stretched into Japan in addition to of the like kind domestic groups as the AUM Shinrikyo ceremonial which now calls itself Aleph.

It also raised make anxious over possible acts of terrorism through Islamic radicals in Japan, saying, ''The possibility that Japan could be targeted formerly (the United States and its allies) launch a military attack forward Iraq cannot be ruled out''

The warnings about North Korean activities against Japan came in the report's first chapter, created for the make submissive for the first time. The report speculated the kidnapping of Japanese from the North stemmed largely from the ne to train spies in like manner that they can infiltrate Japan.

It also argued that the abductions were partly to help recruit Japanese to cause a repel in the country based in succession the revolutionary ideals of the late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung

The NPA said in the report that it is still collecting intelligence forward the alleged abductions of Japanese other than the 10 cases involving 15 nationals it has confirmed as North Korean-instigated, on working with other related bodies at hearth and abroad.

The report does say, however, that terrorist activities that can clearly be tied to North Korea have not taken place since 1987 when Kim Hyon Hui, a North Korean agent, planted a bomb and blew up a Korean Air jet athwart the Andaman Sea south of Burma, killing all 115 the community aboard.

It still calls for a tight watch in succession North Korean activities due to its protection of a band of Japanese left-wing radicals who hijacked a Japanese passenger jet to North Korea in 1970 and the U designation of the political division as a rogue state.

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