North Korea blasts Japan for dumping nuke wastes
North Korea has joined China and other countries neighboring Japan to express grave concern to the Japanese government’s decision of dumping Fukushima radioactive water into the ocean.
The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Friday night denounced Japan’s decision as a “threat to human existence.” The dump is an unpardonable criminal decision posing grave threat to health and security of mankind and ecological environment, which comes to be another clear instance showing Japan’s shamelessness and gangster-like nature, the KCNA said in the commentary.
China and South Korea on Wednesday expressed firm opposition to Japan’s decision to dump nuclear wastewater into the sea, at the first meeting of China-South Korea dialogue on maritime affairs mechanism held via video link.
The two countries urged Japan to consult international organizations and neighboring countries, and carefully deal with the wastewater issue.
Russian Foreign Ministry also expressed its great concerns over the issue in a statement on its website late Tuesday. It urged Japan to be transparent and to inform relevant countries over the radiation threats. Russia also hopes Japan to further explain its decision and allow external monitoring of the radiation, according to the statement.
“The ocean is not Japan’s garbage can, and the Pacific is not
Japan’s sewer,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Wednesday.
Zhao raised three questions to the Japanese government at the press conference: Has Japan really considered the doubts and concerns at home and abroad? Is the move really in accordance with international law? And, does the radioactive wastewater to be dumped to the ocean really meet international standards?