The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday lashed out at Japan for turning the six-party talks into a session on the "abduction issue," warning such action will undermine the settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula.
The DPRK's remarks came as the meeting of the six-party talks chief negotiators is still going on in Beijing.
"It is the calculation of the ultra-nationalist forces of Japan represented by (Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo) Abe that when it bars the DPRK-Japan relations from being normalized over the abduction issue and succeeds in torpedoing the six-party talks in a bid to deter the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula from being settled…," the DPRK Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
"If Japan is allowed to pursue such design (keeping on sanction against the DPRK), the nuclear issue on the peninsula will remain unsettled for an indefinite period like the abduction issue, an issue of bringing the dead to life," it added.
In the statement, the DPRK also accused Japan of luring and abducting Koreans in the area along the DPRK-China border.
