Alhassan Mamman Muhammad, chairman of the Nigerian National Committee for the Study of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, said Japan's independent sanctions against the DPRK meant the unilateral scrapping of the DPRK-Japan inter-governmental Stockholm agreement and a provocation of escalating tension in the Korean Peninsula.

Otete Gaston Mboyo, chairman of the DR Congo-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Association, said:

We can hardly repress indignation at Japan which is frantically clinging to its confrontation racket against the DPRK.

Japan should stop its sanctions row against the DPRK.

Sanctions will not work on the DPRK, independent and sovereign state and prosperous socialist country.

The DPRK is a heroic country which won in the anti-Japanese armed struggle and the Korean war ignited by the U.S. imperialists and smashed all the imperialists' moves for stifling it under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung.

In order to evade the blame for entailing today's grave consequences, Japan would be well advised to behave itself.