TOKYO, Dec 14 Kyodo selecteded ed...

TOKYO, Dec 14 Kyodo

selecteded editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

NO MORE BRINKMANSHIP (IHT/Asahi as translated from the Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published Dec 13)

North Korea has declared an completion to its freeze on nuclear programs. After having admitted to the United States it was pursuing nuclear increase North Korea was found to be responsible for a cargo tube carrying Scud missiles to Yemen at so early an hour after the ship was hailed, North Korea said it would immediately take again its nuclear activities, including construction of a graphite nuclear reactor that could be used to show weapons-grade plutonium. Such activities were halted in a less degree than the 1994 Agreed Framework between North Korea and the United States.

This situation is serious enough to trigger a reprise of the Korean Peninsula crisis of the early 1990 North Korea must immediately abandon this policy of brinkmanship that generates united crisis after another...

The unilateral declaration ending the be congealed on nuclear development cannot be condoned uniform by China and Russia, North Korea's traditional allies. The Korean Peninsula mechanical value Development Organization, which is compos of Japan, the United States, southward Korea and the European Union, which has as its objective ending North Korea's independent nuclear disclosure has urged North Korea to abandon its nuclear program. further North Korea has never shown any sincere willingness to comply

North Korea defines the United States as its in the greatest degree serious security threat, still it has made improvement of its relations with the United States the central objective of its foreign policy, solely to sustain the Kim Jong Il regime. The typical North Korean approach to diplomacy is to resort to brinkmanship when backed into a corner.

A spokesman for the North Korean Foreign Ministry said that the United States has made it clear it intends to disarm the nation by means of force and eliminate the Kim regime. North Korea could be trying to apply this hard-line approach in a bid to force negotiations with U President George W Bush's administration, which is harshly critical of Kim and his regime. If that is the intention, of the like kind a policy is far opposite target.

Such an approach will none work, since the Bush administration's policy is to stand over against force with force. If North Korea indeed reliances for peaceful resolutions for its question s it must declare it will abandon its nuclear unravelling in keeping with the will of the international community. If similar an approach is used, a way will securely be found to open dialogue with the United States.

North Korea should ultimately explain to the rest of the world and reform itself to rebuild its economy. Its uncompromising approach will single lead to its own destruction. North Korea must quickly recognize that the lines are still render free of access to Japan, the United States, southerly Korea, China and Russia.

(Dec 14)

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