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Abduction and ecomfort womenf are totally different issues: PM Abe

 

   Prime Minster Abe Shinzo on March 26 said to reporters in the Diet Building that North Koreafs abduction of Japanese nationals and wartime gcomfort womenh are gtotally different issues,h adding, gThe abduction is an issue of an ongoing human rights violation.h

 

   This remark was a response to a Washington Post editorial that criticized Abe for being gblind to Japanfs own war crimesh in contrast to his position on the abduction issue.

 

   While stressing, gThe situation in which Japanese people are held in North Korea still continues,h the prime minister dismissed the wartime sex slavery issue as a past event by saying, gThe comfort women issue lies in the past.h

 

   He rejected the international criticism that the Japanese government has a double standard regarding human rights, and this statement will inevitably provoke further criticism.                       - Akahata, March 27, 2007

 





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