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Japanese Reactionaries Can Never Block Advance of DPRK: Rodong Sinmun

Pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- Japan, vociferating about the "effectiveness" of its unilateral sanctions against the DPRK, made a decision that all foreign ships entering it should regard it a duty to make "a report on records of portcall on north Korea." It also decided to fine those concerned and inflict legal punishment such as prison sentence on them in case ships which dropped in at Korea enter ports of Japan after concealing the fact.

Rodong Sinmun Thursday in a commentary terms it a useless act which can be made only by the islanders politically ignorant and senseless to the times.

With no desperate efforts can the Japanese reactionaries ever block the advance of the DPRK, the commentary notes, and goes on:

Japan is trying to provoke the DPRK through unilateral sanctions while following the U.S. but it is as foolish as trying to pluck a star from the sky.

We will never allow any slightest act of violating the sovereignty of the country.

The Japanese reactionaries should seriously pay heed to this warning of the DPRK.