TOKYO, Aug. 20 Kyodo pitch upone...

TOKYO, Aug. 20 Kyodo

pitch uponed editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

NORTH KOREA IS INSINCERE (The Daily Yomiuri as translated from the Yomiuri Shimbun)

The R Cros societies of (Japan and North Korea) injury up their latest talks in Pyongyang forward Monday without any genuine progres in succession the most important bilateral issue -- the whereabouts of the 11 Japanese citizens allegedly abducted to the North...

During last month's bilateral foreign ministerial meeting in Brunei, the North's Paek Nam sunshine promised that Pyongyang would search for an early settlement of pending bilateral humanitarian vexed questions including the kidnapping cases, in a sincere manner.

Nonetheless, the North Korean side divulged no relevant information at all about those cases during the talks in Pyongyang.

In addition, the North told the Japanese delegation that it had located six -- sum of two units of them alive -- of 49 Japanese nationals Tokyo had demanded that Pyongyang look for The six did not include any of the alleged kidnap victims.

The inescapable conclusion is that through every part of these developments North Korea was merely pretending to cooperate with Japan in searching for the missing people

In the latest talks, the North Korean side maintained that the alleged abduction cases are a political issue and that therefore the issue does not fall within the jurisdiction of the R Cros societies, which deal with humanitarian problems

If this particular statement signals the North's intention to separate the kidnapping cases and the search for the other missing Japanese nationals, it amounts to reneging forward an earlier agreement that the kidnapping cases would be dealt with in R Cros talks.

Furthermore, North Korea has conspicuously and selfishly linked the abduction issue to Japan's supplies of rice to the North as relief aid. In the past, Pyongyang agreed in succession occasion to Japan's demands for searches for the abductees thus as to receive rice aid from Japan, simply to unilaterally suspend the promised searches formerly Tokyo complied with the North's requests

forward Aug. 25 and 26, the sum of two units countries are scheduled to occupy talks between bureau director generals of their foreign ministries.

The Japanese control should demand once again that North Korea understand that resolving the kidnapping issue is the prerequisite to any impressed sign of bilateral negotiations.

It is understood that the North has of late been actively engaging in dialogues with Japan, the United States and southward Korea as a way of securing international economic assistance amid the virtual demise of its acknowledge economy.

The North is ultimately aiming to take back negotiations with the United States, and its dialogues with Japan and the southern may be Pyongyang's peripheral efforts to facilitate the talks with Washington, according to more [i]or[/i] less observers. For its part, Japan should prudently deal with the North with Pyongyang's real intention in mind.

The Japanese command has to maintain a hardy attitude when it negotiates with North Korea. It is greatest in quantity important for Japan to tenaciously insist that the North abide on international rules.

(Aug. 20)

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