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N. Korea slams 'political prostitute' Park speech at UN
by Staff Writers
Seoul (AFP) Sept 26, 2014


Japan, N.Korea officials to meet over Cold War kidnappings report
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 25, 2014 - Japan and North Korea will hold talks next week in China, officials said, after Pyongyang failed to produce a report on its probe into the Cold War kidnappings of Japanese citizens.

The planned meeting comes after Japan announced in July it was easing sanctions against North Korea following the secretive state's promise to reinvestigate cases of Japanese people kidnapped in the 1970s and 1980s to train the North's spies.

"A working-level meeting between Japan and North Korea will take place so that the Pyongyang side can tell us how the re-investigation is going," Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters on Wednesday during a visit to the United Nations.

"It will be on September 29 in Shenyang, China."

Japanese officials had expected the report by September, but North Korea recently said it would be unable to supply substantial details in that timeline.

"The North informed us in mid-September that they could neither brief us on anything more than the early phase of the probe, nor clarify when they could present the first report," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, the Japanese government's top spokesman, told reporters Thursday.

"The Japanese government has demanded that they explain exactly what they are doing in the re-investigation."

North Korea admitted in 2002 that it had kidnapped 13 Japanese citizens to train its spies in Japanese language and customs.

Five of the abductees returned home but Pyongyang said -- without producing credible evidence -- that the eight others had died.

That claim provoked an uproar in Japan, where there are suspicions that dozens or perhaps even hundreds of others were taken.

Tokyo and Pyongyang have no formal diplomatic ties, partially because of what Japan says is the North's unwillingness to come clean over the abductions.

North Korea called South Korean President Park Geun-Hye a "political prostitute" Friday as it denounced her call at the UN General Assembly for Pyongyang to improve its human rights record and abandon nuclear weapons.

In a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency, the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) said Park's speech in New York on Wednesday amounted to the malign rantings of a "psychopath" and "confrontation maniac."

It was a "blatant challenge to the dignity and social system of (North Korea) and an extremely dangerous provocation driving bedevilled North-South relations towards total catastrophe," the statement said.

In her address Park had urged the international community to help tear down the "wall of division" separating the Korean peninsula.

She pledged to engage with the North and provide economic support if Pyongyang gives up its nuclear weapons drive, and also pressed the North on its dire human rights record.

The CPRK statement said the president's remarks displayed her ignorance of the "sacred mission" of the North's nuclear weapons programme, and added that her comments on human rights were "bereft of elementary common sense."

In a comprehensive report published in February, a UN commission of inquiry into the North's rights detailed a wide range of systemic abuses including murder, enslavement and torture.

The commission said many of the violations constituted crimes against humanity and suggested they could be placed before the International Criminal Court.

Denouncing Park's speech as an effort to escalate confrontation, the CPRK statement concluded with a personal attack that repeated a number of sexist epithets the North has thrown at the South Korean president before.

"The world people are spitting at her, disillusioned with this political prostitute," it said.

"She malignantly slandered her fellow countrymen in the North even at the UN, venomously swishing her skirt," it added.

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