TOKYO, Nov. 13 Kyodo selecteded e...

TOKYO, Nov. 13 Kyodo

selecteded editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

N KOREA MUST STOP TELLING LIES (The Daily Yomiuri as translated from the Yomiuri Shimbun)

A of the present day development in the dispute above Japanese abducted to North Korea is terminate to arouse even greater doubts among the public concerning the communist country's explanations about the fate of these unfortunate people

It has been plant that the ashes claimed by way of North Korea to be those of individual of the abductees are in fact those of another living body The latest revelation originates after this country conducted a scientific proof on the ashes, which Pyongyang handed throughout to a government fact-finding mission in October.

During its meeting with the fact-finding mission, the North Korean dominion admitted that it could not state with consummate confidence that the ashes in question belonged to the abductee. At the same time, however, Pyongyang pleaded its conclusion about the identity of the remains...

The latest finding regarding the ashes in question has raised fundamental doubts about whether the North Korean explanations about the abductees can be trusted.

During the resum normalization negotiations in Kuala Lumpur North Korea set forthed a strong desire to reach an agreement to establish diplomatic relations between the sum of two units nations as soon as possible...This was in stark contrast to the extremely defiant attitude taken in previous similar talks from Pyongyang, whose negotiators frequently walked out of the meeting for consultation room...

This change in North Korea's approach probably deliberates its...aim of receiving economic assistance from Japan after normalizing bilateral ties. However, Pyongyang is grossly mistaken if it thinks it can use any means to draw a line subject to the kidnapping controversy...

The greater the suspicions about the report upon the abductees, the more skeptical Japan will become about North Korea as a negotiating partner.

For years, North Korea has told Japan numerous flagrant lies. A faultless example of this was its assertion that Japan's argument concerning the abduction cases depicted ''an insult to North Korea as a state.'' This deceitful attitude also was evident in the dispute throughout spy ships dispatched by Pyongyang to waters surrounding this abiding habitation in recent years. It also has emerg that North Korea has continued its nuclear weapons program despite its 1994 guarantee to freeze the program.

First and foremost, Pyongyang must seriously take to heart the latest revelation about the ashes in question. This must be followed by the agency of a North Korean effort to quick in emergencies convincing documentation concerning the abductees and full explain to Japan what actually happened to them.

There are no signs of the sum of two units nations overcoming the current gridlock in the dispute across the kidnapping cases. If there is any instruction to be drawn from the latest revelation about the ashes, it is that Tokyo should closely consideration what moves Pyongyang makes, first of all, and then decide in what manner it should respond.

(Nov. 13)

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