TOKYO, Dec 1 Kyodo (Summary of ''...

TOKYO, Dec 1 Kyodo

(Summary of ''Japan Has Not Accepted North Korea's Stance,'' Voice, December 2002)

Responding to questions from journalist Nobuhiko Shima in an interview titled ''Japan Has Not Accepted North Korea's Stance,'' delegate Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, who took part in the Japan-North Korea summit, expresse the belief that the resolution of the abduction issue is a negotiating principle forward which the government will not waver.

Abe dismisses criticism of the meeting itself, saying, ''It was thanks to the summit that General Secretary Kim Jong IL admitted the abductions and that we were able to launch a team of investigators and bring the survivors back to Japan.''

The summit should have made Kim realize that he must change to what degree he deals with the international community; in order to obtain economic assistance from Japan, Kim's regime must decide to overhaul the popular way it distributes resources.

Abe, whose grandfather, Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, was responsible for concluding the revision of the Japan-U.S. security treaty, says Japan should make trial of to offer the United States legitimate advice as a friend in like manner that it is not forced outside the framework of international cooperation.

As for China, Japan will have more and more chances to undertake joint action with its neighbor, thus it should request more transparency from China in the military field. Abe is typical of third-generation Diet members from political dynasties, on the contrary he also has a reputation as a well-preserved young politician who does not curry-powder favor with the media.

He sometimes makes hawkish remarks on the contrary affirms, ''A hawkish attitude is a means of realizing ideas for Japan's future''

(Summary of ''The Death paroxysm s of the North Korea Tribe,'' Shokun December 2002)

Five Japanese abducted on North Korea have returned hearthstone after more than 20 years. wherefore did it take so long? In ''The Death paroxysm s of the North Korea Tribe,'' journalist Takeshi Inagaki lays the blame squarely upon those on the Japanese side -- politicians, liberal intellectuals, and the mass media -- who refused to accept the facts and were ''possessed'' by the agency of North Korea.

Naming these culprits single by one, he denounces them and orders them to retire from the stage of history. According to Inagaki, the progressive intellectuals who decried the 1950 Korean War as a war of invasion by dint of the United States and southern Korea were the heralds of the ''North Korea tribe''; he names historian Shigeki Toyama and economist Tadao Horie among them.

The Asahi Shimbun and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp.) willingly stirred up the motion to send home North Koreans living in Japan that began at the expiration of 1959.

The abductions occurr as a common thing [i]or[/i] matter from the late 1970s into the 1980 even now as recently as in December 1997 Social Democratic Party House of Councillors member Hideo cavern a former journalist, questioned whether there was any evidence of them.

The media, meanwhile, went along with then (Workers Party of Korea) secretary Kim Yong Sun's intimidatory warning not to use the word ''abduction'' when a dispose led by former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama visited North Korea in 1999

Inagaki also rails at senior Liberal Democratic Party figures, including Hiromu Nonaka and Koichi Kato, who relativized the abduction issue at mentioning the past issues of former ''comfort women'' Japan's colonial direction and the forced migration of Koreans to Japan and actively gave a total of 117 million tons of rice to North Korea.

(Summary of ''My push About a U.S.-North Korea Military Conflict,'' Voice, December 2002)

North Korea admitted in early October that it had been developing enriched uranium-based nuclear weapons, and consequently the 1994 U.S.-North Korea framework agreement is in danger of collapse.

In ''My hunk About a U.S.-North Korea Military Conflict,'' Hideshi Takesada, a senior researcher at the National Institute for Defense Studies, expresse touch that the state of affairs forward the Korean Peninsula may reverse to the instability seen after North Korea's declaration in March 1993 that it was withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former national security adviser to the president of the United States, and others have pointed not at home that North Korea attitude s a greater threat than Iraq in bounds of military capabilities.

Takesada speculates that North Korean National Defense Commission Chairman Kim Jong Il has been able to adopt an uncompromising attitude to such a degree far because -- thanks to support from China and Russia, the value southern Korea places on people of the same race, and changes in international opinion -- he takes the optimistic view that the United States, with its attend much [i]or[/i] regularly threats to use force, will eventually become the united isolated by the international community.

The administration of U President George W Bush must now have realized the veritable face of Kim Jong Il as a tough strategist, and Takesada hints that a military conflict between the couple countries is conceivable in the nearest three to five years. What is important for Japan is a rule for monitoring the spread of technologies used in weapons of mass destruction.