North Korea and Suga mention “preparing to meet with Kim Jong-un”… “I will be paid for my sins”

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga <자료사진> © AFP=News1

In a situation where Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced that he was “ready to meet without conditions” with the North Korean Workers’ Party general secretary, Kim Jong-un, to resolve the abduction of Japanese citizens and normalize relations between North Korea and Japan, North Korea again criticized Japan.

In an article on the 18th titled “The first national crime that Japan committed against our country,” the Labor Newspaper, an agency of the Labor Party, discussed the Imjin War and said, “Our people have not forgotten the history of Japan’s invasion of our country.”

The newspaper pointed out that during the Imjin War period, Japan looted many ceramics and prints from our country and kidnapped numerous women, and emphasized that “Our people will get paid for all the sins committed by Japan in the past.”

North Korea has been criticizing Japan for reasons such as the history of the Japanese colonial period. In particular, the Japanese high school textbooks that entered this month have been criticized one after another over the claim of sovereignty over Dokdo and the decision to release radioactive contaminated water at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Japan.

In particular, North Korea decided to absent from the Tokyo Olympics in July this year due to the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), and blocked the possibility of dialogue with Japan, which was expected when participating in the Olympics.

In the midst of this, Prime Minister Suga gave a speech at the Strategic and International Studies Institute (CSIS) in Washington DC, USA on the 16th (local time), saying, “To resolve the abduction issue of (Japanese) and to establish a productive relationship with North Korea, Kim Jong-un was unconditionally “I am ready to meet,” he said again and again, “I decided to take the lead and act myself.”

Since the inauguration of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the Japanese government has been trying to hold a North Korean-Japanese summit to resolve the abductee problem, but the North Korean side has been ignoring it.

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