It's honor for a journalist to be "sniped" at by Korean government-North or South.

2018.6.9 21:23

朝日新聞ソウル支局長は「御用保守論客」　北朝鮮メディア、名指しで非難　金正恩氏「涙」報道にピリピリ？


KCNA Commentary Snipes at Asahi Shimbun's Smear Propaganda
Date: 08/06/2018 | Source: KCNA.co.jp (English) | Read original version at source

Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- Yoshihiro Makino, Seoul Bureau chief of Asahi Shimbun, in a recent article dared impair the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK and hurl mud at it once again.
The article, authored by the notorious reptile journalist, is run through with lies told by the scum of society, and it was carried by the Tokyo head office of the newspaper.

The Korean people are hardly repressing their anger at the tricky propaganda conducted by the conservative journalists and media of Japan.

Makino and Asahi Shimbun's smear propaganda are not the first time. They have already earned an ill fame for speaking ill of the dignity and social system of the DPRK and its economy and people's livelihood.

As far as Makino is concerned, he is just a hack writer who has been crazy about conducting conspiratorial propaganda against the DPRK by using false information offered by intelligence and security agencies of the U.S., Japan and south Korea and "testimonies by defectors from the north" since the periods of the Lee Myung Bak and Park Geun Hye regimes.

Notably, Makino angered the south Korean public by writing a nonsensical article about the DPRK-U.S. talks, and became the first foreign journalist whose "entry to Chongwadae newsmen's office was prohibited indefinitely" by the south Korean authorities.

The reckless act of Makino and Asahi Shimbun is just a last-ditch effort to chill the atmosphere of national reconciliation and detente created on the Korean peninsula. It is also part of the anti-DPRK acts being committed under the manipulation of the Abe cult fretting about the tendency to "passing Japan".

Just two months ago, Asahi Shimbun, commenting on the frequent anti-DPRK remarks by the Abe regime, said "the regime is concerned of being isolated in the hot wind of north Korea-centered diplomacy sweeping Northeast Asia" and talked about "Japanese people's concern about their country which was left alone".

Clear is the conclusion.

Such hack writers and pseudo-media as Makino and Asahi Shimbun have "tangibly" contributed to causing the phenomenon of "passing Japan" now that state politics, society, media and even individuals of Japan are distrusted and rejected by the public at home and abroad.

No one will lend a sympathetic ear to such mean propaganda aimed at painting a black picture of the strategic status of the DPRK admired by the world and the vigorous advance of the Korean people for building a powerful socialist nation.

Poor, indeed, is the plight of Asahi Shimbun existing on carrying the articles authored by such a barking dog as Makino with petty fabrications.

Taking this opportunity, we seriously warn the plot-breeders like Makino and Asahi Shimbun against their moves.

Those who act rashly to slander the dignified DPRK can never be pardoned but will be forced to pay dearly, whether they are living in the island country or in any far-flung place across the ocean.

　韓国、北朝鮮双方の政府から非難されるなんて、最高の栄誉じゃないの？
　 産経新聞も頑張れば？


（press freedom)

”助ける人はいなかったという”

女性連れ去り、周辺に多くの人いたが誰も助けず
2018年06月09日

発表によると、男は１月３１日夜、都営浅草線新橋駅の改札付近で、帰宅中だった神奈川県の２０歳代の女子大学生に「飲みに行こう」と声をかけ、嫌がる女子大生の両腕や肩をつかんで約２００メートル離れた自宅マンションに押し込み、体を触るなどのわいせつ行為をした疑い。容疑を認めている。

　女性は「やめてください」などと言って何度も手を振り払おうとしたが、男はしつこく腕などを引っ張ったという。周辺には多くの駅利用者がおり、女性を心配するように足を止める人もいたが、助ける人はいなかったという。

2018年06月09日 07時18分

傍観者効果なのか、関わりたくなかったのか・・・・・少なくとも警察に連絡できただろうに？

Is Dr. Laura Dean just ignorant or hypocrite?

Dr. Laura Dean
@proflauradean
Assistant Professor of Political Science @MillikinU, Title VIII Research Scholar @KennanInstitute, American Research Fellow @AAUW, Regional Faculty @REEEC_UIUC

Decatur, IL
lauraadean.com
2016年4月に登録




Hazama Hisatakeさんがリツイート

Dr. Laura Dean
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@proflauradean
6月5日
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A powerful statue & reminder of war time sexual violence, I visited this monument in San Francisco to the Comfort Women. It depicts young women from Korea, China & the Philippines holding hands in remembrance of victims of sexual #slavery by the Japanese military! #Trafficking

Comfort Women : Do you hear their cry? - YouTube

被害者を取り戻し、北朝鮮から被害者への賠償金が支払われない限り、何の援助もするべきではない

ワタセユウヤ
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拉致被害者を取り返した上で、一円も経済援助を行わないことがベスト。むしろ、被害者を取り戻し、北朝鮮から被害者への賠償金が支払われない限り、何の援助もするべきではない。更に日本は核武装を検討すべきだ。

9:31 - 2018年6月8日

これは正論

経済援助して核兵器開発されたらたまったもんじゃない。

Merkel said 'world is being reorganised' in reference to a series of Trump policies

Merkel calls for Europe to step up and dominate global affairs ahead of G7 summit in wake of Donald Trump's America First policy

German Chancellor speaking ahead of the Group of Seven summit in Quebec
Merkel said 'world is being reorganised' in reference to a series of Trump policies
She vowed to take Trump to task over climate and trade during the G7 summit
French President Macron warned US withdrawal from global role would harm US
By JULIAN ROBINSON FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 16:18 BST, 7 June 2018 | UPDATED: 20:58 BST, 7 June 2018


Angela Merkel has called for Europe to step up and be more assertive in global affairs in the wake of US President Donald Trump's America First policy.

The German Chancellor, speaking ahead of the Group of Seven summit in Quebec, Canada this week said that 'the world is being reorganised'.

Her remarks were a reference to Trump's withdrawal from from the Iran nuclear deal last month, his exit from the Paris climate treaty and to a new trans-Atlantic row over trade.

She vowed to take Trump to task over climate and trade but said the President's America First stance shows there could be a 'serious problem with multilateral agreements'.

In another warning to Mr Trump, French President Emanuel Macron said today that if America decides to withdraw from is global role, it would be 'bad for the US economy and image, and Trump knows that'. He added that a trade war 'won't spare anyone'.

世界は再編成されつつある、と。メルケル氏　貿易戦争は誰のためにもならんし、アメリカが世界の舞台から降りたら、それは、アメリカ経済のためにもならんし、アメリカのイメージも損なうぞ、マクロン氏。

”The G7 does not need the U.S.”

MACRON SAYS G-7 DOESN’T NEED U.S., ‘WE DON’T MIND BEING 6’
BY JASON LEMON ON 6/7/18 AT 5:41 PM

France’s President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that the G-7 "doesn't mind being six," suggesting that the group doesn’t need the United States.

The French president took a firm stance against President Donald Trump’s isolationist policies, as he spoke in Canada alongside Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

“The six countries of the G-7 without the United States are a bigger market taken together than the American market,” Macron said, according to Reuters. “There will be no world hegemony if we know how to organize ourselves. And we don’t want there to be one.”

Directly addressing Trump’s unilateral moves, Macron said: “Maybe the American president doesn’t care about being isolated today, but we don’t mind being six, if needs be.”

G7はアメリカなしで、G6であってもかまわんし、アメリカより６カ国合わせたほうが市場としてはでかいし、アメリカは孤立をいとわないようだし、と、マクロン大統領。

DPRK has long provided weapons and other support to Palestinian militants

THE CLINTONS 4 hours ago
Bill Clinton says 'I regret' missed chance to 'end' North Korea missile program

Clinton did not elaborate on why Arafat asked him not to make the trip. The North Korean regime has long provided weapons and other support to Palestinian militants and Arafat made multiple trips to Pyongyang before his death in 2004.

クリントン氏は、北朝鮮の核問題を解決するチャンスはあったが、アラファト議長が、北朝鮮行きをやめろ、と言っていたのでやめた、と。

北朝鮮は、パレスチナな武装勢力に武器などを提供しており、アラファト議長は、なんども北朝鮮に渡航している、と。

Jeff Kingston is mistaken again

Japan’s Abe Pushes Trump To Get North Korean To Discuss Kidnappings
June 7, 2018 at 5:22 pm

However, with the long list of difficult issues already on the table for Trump and Kim, and the talks already have been called off once due to disputes between the two sides, it remains to be seen if Washington will be willing to bring up what many of Tokyo’s allies regard as a distinctly Japanese issue.

Jeff Kingston, director of Asian studies at Tokyo’s Temple University, said in March that neither Seoul nor Washington regards the abduction issue as a pressing matter in talks with Pyongyang.

“Japan’s insistence on this in the Six Party Talks (in the 2000s) was one of the factors that eventually led to a breakdown in those talks,” he said. “Many people wondered why the fate of a few dozen Japanese was more important than getting North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.”

Abe has never said " the fate of a few dozen Japanese was more important than getting North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons."

Both Getting North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons　and bringing the abductees home are vital.

Don't forget human rights in North Korea.
Failing to raise human rights would signal weakness on a critically important problem. Bringing up human rights with Mr. Kim “is the right thing to do morally, ethically, legally and politically”

it remains to be seen if Washington will be willing to bring up what many of Tokyo’s allies regard as a distinctly Japanese issue.

The abductions issue is not a distinctly Japanese issue. South Koreans were also abducted.




2018.4.27 10:19
【南北首脳会談】
「日本のように戦って」会談見守る韓国人拉致被害者家族　未帰還者は４００人超

韓国政府は今回の会談で、自国の拉致被害について言及するか明らかにしていない。インチョルさんは訴える。「『人権問題の解決』を金正恩（朝鮮労働党委員長）に言及させてこそ、誠意を持って会談に臨んでいるか確認できる。そうでなければ、いつも通りの『ショー』に終わる」


　南北首脳会談に向け、複数の被害者団体は会談で韓国人拉致問題を扱うよう要求。朝鮮戦争拉致被害者家族協議会は２５日に会見を開き、「非核化と同時に、北朝鮮の人権問題を解決してほしい」と訴えた。

Korean abductee families demanded Moon Jae-in to raise the abductee issues as well as denuclearization issue.

It seems Moon ignored it. The families　feel forgotten.

As they watch Americans go free, families of South Koreans kidnapped by Pyongyang feel frustrated and forgotten
‘Why is President Moon speaking out for American detainees and Japanese abductees while remaining silent about the hundreds of South Koreans who never returned?’

PUBLISHED : Friday, 11 May, 2018, 1:21pm
UPDATED : Friday, 11 May, 2018, 9:12pm

The families say their decades-long struggle to bring home their loved ones has been ignored by Pyongyang and successive governments in Seoul. Current South Korean President Moon Jae-in, they say, has sidelined human rights issues as he reaches out to the North.

Perhaps Abe takes human right issue more seriously than Moon jay-in ?

In any case, we can understand for the U.S. the denuclearization of Korean Peninsula is more important than the Japanese (& South Korean) abductee issue.

Therefore Abe said,

「拉致問題については最終的にはやはり、私と金正恩党委員長、日朝の間で解決しなければならないと決意している」＊



Ultimately the abductee issue must be solved between Me and Mr. Kim jong-un, between Japan and North Korea

There is no logical nor ethical inconsistency in what Abe is saying.

(With regard to the abductee issue, Abe should have had the talk with Kim Jong-un much earlier, though in my opinion.)


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2018年6月8日 / 09:54 / 14時間前更新
安倍首相、日朝会談を呼びかけ　金委員長と「話し合いたい」

安倍首相は、「拉致問題の解決は安倍内閣において最重要課題」と強調。「最終的には私と金正恩委員長、日朝の間で解決をしなくてはならないと決意をしている」と語った。

北朝鮮問題に深く関与している米、韓、中、日のうち、日本だけが北との首脳会談が実現できない状態が続いている。

ただ、日朝間のパイプは細いとみられ、実現に向けての具体的な道筋は不透明。２００２年の小泉純一郎首相訪朝の交渉に携わった田中均・元外務審議官は、日本の対北朝鮮外交には「戦略が見えない」と指摘する。

安倍首相は１２日の米朝会談の行方を見守る考えで、「核・ミサイル問題について、まず米朝首脳会談で前進することを期待している」と述べた。トランプ大統領からは、金委員長との会談で拉致問題を提起してもらう約束を取り付けた。

日本が持つ北朝鮮への有望なカードは経済支援。トランプ大統領も日本と韓国、中国からの支援に改めて期待を示した。安倍首相は「日朝平壌宣言に基づいて不幸な過去を清算し、国交を正常化し、経済協力を行う用意がある。できる限りの役割を果たしていく考えだ」と語った。

トランプ氏、安倍首相に確約「拉致問題 確実に議論」

　トランプ大統領との信頼関係に自信を持つ安倍総理ですが、北朝鮮との対話に前のめりなトランプ大統領に対し、どうしても念押しをしておかなければならないことがありました。

　それは「拉致問題」。金正恩（キム・ジョンウン）党委員長との会談で、拉致問題を提起するようトランプ大統領に改めて求めました。２時間近くに及んだ首脳会談を終えて行われた共同記者会見。トランプ大統領は拉致問題について・・・

　「安倍首相はこの問題をとても熱心に語ったし、私も彼の意思に従う。北朝鮮との間で拉致問題を確実に議論する」（アメリカ トランプ大統領）

　米朝首脳会談で拉致問題を取り上げることを明言しました。これに対し、安倍総理は・・・

　「大統領にも十分に理解をしていただき、“提起”をしていただくことを今もお話をいただきましたが、約束をしていただきました。本当にうれしく思っています」（安倍首相）

　トランプ大統領から希望通りの言葉を引き出した安倍総理は、日朝首脳会談に意欲を示しました。

　「拉致問題については最終的にはやはり、私と金正恩党委員長、日朝の間で解決しなければならないと決意している」（安倍首相）

　そして、安倍総理は「その先」にまで踏み込みました。

　「北朝鮮が正しい道を歩むのであれば、明るい未来を描くこともできる。我が国も日朝平壌宣言に基づいて、不幸な過去を清算し、国交を正常化し、経済協力を行う用意があります」（安倍首相）

　政府関係者はこの発言について、こう解説します。

　「日本としては拉致が解決しないと経済支援はできないが、“拉致ばかり”というわけにもいかない。いずれにせよ朝鮮戦争の終結の方が先になるだろう」（政府関係者）