Kim Yo-jong, a member of the DPRK Labor Commission and the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, said that if Japan can shake off the shadow of the abduction issue and is truly willing to move DPRK-Japan relations forward, the two countries can jointly create a "new future."
Kim Yo-jong expressed this position in an article broadcast by KCNA on February 15. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, speaking in the House of Representatives last week, said that it is necessary to change the current relationship between the DPRK and Japan, saying: "It is extremely important for me to take the initiative to establish a high-level relationship with Pyongyang. ”
The DPRK says that other countries, especially South Korea and Japan, have always been a lesson, and good words are rarely heard, and when they occasionally hear such expressions as "create a better future together," it is difficult for outsiders to adapt to it for a while.
However, Kim Yo-jong's article sounds sincere. "If Prime Minister Kishida's remarks are based on the genuine intention of boldly breaking free from the shackles of the past and moving the DPRK-Japan relationship forward," she wrote, "there is no reason not to give credit to him." ”
At first glance, it sounds like Kishida has made something wrong. In fact, the kidnapping issue is an old scar between North Korea and Japan, not that Japan engaged in kidnapping in North Korea, but that in the 70s and 80s of the last century, North Korea sent ** to kidnap a number of Japanese citizens and let them provide language and customs training for North Korean spies.
In September 2002, then Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited Pyongyang and signed the Pyongyang Declaration with the then North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. For the first time, North Korea has admitted to the abduction of Japanese nationals, which it has denied in the past.
Kishida is now stating that he is eager to save people. North Korean officials say 13 Japanese were kidnapped, but Japan is suspicious of this, believing that North Korea may be hiding some other cases.
However, Kim Yo-jong's words are still prone to create illusions. In the article, she wrote: "As long as Japan boldly changes its outdated hostile mentality, renounces unattainable obsessions, sticks to its faith on the basis of mutual recognition, acts prudently, and makes a political decision to open up new ways to improve relations, the two countries have every opportunity to create a new future together."
She also said: "Only politicians who have a long-term wise vision and strategic vision, as well as the will and practical ability to make political decisions, can seize the opportunity and change history." ”
When politicians speak, what they say is far less important than what they do. More precisely, is this person reliable?
Trump said that he admires Russia's Putin very much, and it stands to reason that Putin should also be reciprocated: I also like Trump.
But that's not the case, Putin said in an interview with Russia Today (RT) correspondent Pavel Zarubin on Wednesday that Russia is willing to cooperate with whoever wins in the upcoming U.S. **, but Biden is "more likely**" than the two
It is even more important for any country. Now, Kishida has spoken, Kim Yo-jong has also written an article, and it is rare for Pyongyang to say good things back, but the question is, is North Korea also "more able" like Biden?
The weather there doesn't seem to be like this. At the end of the article, not long after the article began to talk about the prospect of creating a "new future" together, Kim Yo-jong changed his tone again, saying that the current North Korean leadership has no idea of improving relations between the two countries, and has no interest in contact with the leaders, and "we will continue to observe Kishida's real thoughts in the future."
North Korea is North Korea, it's not Biden.