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StatementThe U.S. and the DPRK Should Make Every Effort for the Summit Talk to take place for the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and Building Peace in Northeast Asia

YASUI Masakazu, Secretary General
Japan Council against A & H Bombs (Gensuikyo)
May 26, 2018

1.  On May 24, U.S. President Trump released a letter addressed to Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, announcing the cancellation of the US-DPRK summit talks scheduled on June 12 in Singapore. Both the U.S. and North Korea, however, expressed their will to continue dialogue with each other. As President Trump suggested that it was still possible to hold the talk on June 12 as originally planned, the consultation between the two countries is going on. The task of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and building a peace system in Northeast Asia bears not only on the relations between the U.S. and North Korea, but on peace and security of Asia and the world. In spite of all difficulties they may have, the two countries must make sincere efforts to achieve the solution of the problems through talks.

2.  In his letter, President Trump shows off the nuclear capabilities of the U.S, saying, “Ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used.” By whichever side it is made, the threat to use military force, especially nuclear weapons, cannot be allowed, in light of international law as well as from the humanitarian viewpoint. As the movement that has experienced the nuclear tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we strongly demand that the nuclear blackmailing should be ended.

3. For the realization of the U.S.-DPRK summit, the government of Japan should play its due role. With its eyes open to the fact that the world is massively moving toward prohibition of nuclear weapons, it must change its policy of “total commitment to pressure”, which has only heightened military tension. We demand that as the A-bombed country it stands in support of the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons and take positive actions to help to achieve the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and a peace system in Northeast Asia.