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Japan sanctions can get N. Korea’s dictator Kim Jong Il ousted
Sunday, March 19, 2006
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese sanctions on North Korea would have a severe impact on the reclusive communist regime, and could ultimately topple dictator Kim Jong Il if China joined in pressuring Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons program, a key ruling party official said Sunday.
Shinzo Abe said Kim could avoid being deposed by following the example of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, who a year ago said his country would dismantle its programs for weapons of mass destruction and allow U.N., American and British inspectors to visit the facilities.
“If he doesn’t make that choice, then there could be regime change.
He must realize this,” Abe said on a TV Asahi debate program.
Abe, the acting secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, did not elaborate on how Kim might be removed from power.
He argued, however, that economic sanctions favored by most Japanese would deal a serious blow to the impoverished communist state.
Pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to ban North Korean ships from Japanese ports, prohibit cash remittances to the communist state, or impose other sanctions in an attempt to force Pyongyang to release information on Japanese kidnapped by Pyongyang in the 1970s and 1980s.
--AP
03-18-2006, 07:39 PM
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