Pyongyang, December 3 (KCNA) -- Sakamoto, member of the House of Representatives of Japan, referring to the Asian regional preliminaries for the 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Pyongyang on November 15, let loose remarks out of common sense.

At the "special committee of abduction issue" of the House of Representatives on November 28, he, turning to Japan's defeat by the DPRK, said that "if Japanese team had defeated the DPRK team 2:0 or 3:0, the Japanese footballers might have been abducted".

What do his remarks signify?

What he said are too childish to be uttered by a politician holding an official post.

Japan's team had the game with the DPRK team in 22 years after the Asian regional preliminaries for the FIFA World Cup in Italy in 1989. Complicated problems cropped up even before the match at that time because of the frozen relations between the two countries.

The DPRK fairly handled problems from the viewpoint of high game morality and on the universal principle of international relations.

Sakamoto's assertions indicate his distorted way of thinking driven by guilty conscience.

Japan is obliged to feel the guilty conscience as it inflicted huge misfortunes and pain on the Korean people.

He busied himself, currying favor with ultra-right conservative elements obsessed with confrontation with DPRK. But his remarks only became a laughing stock of the world people.

The rhetoric of "abduction" touted by the Japanese politicians is nothing but cliche.

It is high time that Japan stopped the old and trite rhetoric about "abduction" with which the international community has been fed up.