{"id":50993,"date":"2026-04-15T02:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=50993"},"modified":"2026-04-15T02:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:00:29","slug":"north-korea-calls-japan-diplomatic-paper-a-grave-provocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=50993","title":{"rendered":"North Korea calls Japan diplomatic paper a &#8216;grave provocation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEOUL: North Korea accused Japan of a &#8220;grave provocation&#8221; on Wednesday (Apr 15) after Tokyo laid out its opposition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/east-asia\/kim-jong-un-says-north-koreas-nuclear-status-irreversible-threatens-south-korea-6012331\">Pyongyang&#8217;s nuclear programme<\/a> in an annual diplomatic paper.<\/p>\n<p>The countries do not have formal diplomatic relations, and Pyongyang frequently criticises Tokyo over its colonial rule of the Korean peninsula, which ended with World War II.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese foreign ministry released its annual bluebook last week, detailing Tokyo&#8217;s official diplomatic views and repeating its opposition to North Korea having nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The position is &#8220;a grave provocation encroaching upon the sovereign rights, security interests and development rights of our sacred state&#8221;, an unnamed North Korean foreign ministry official said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea&#8217;s &#8220;measures for bolstering up its defence capabilities &#8230; belong to the right to self-defence&#8221;, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>It described the bluebook as &#8220;woven with conventional gangster-like logic and absurdity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has insisted that it will not give up its nuclear arsenal, describing its path as &#8220;irreversible&#8221; and vowing to strengthen its capabilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/east-asia\/north-korea-japan-diplomatic-paper-nuclear-programme-6057036\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: North Korea accused Japan of a &#8220;grave provocation&#8221; on Wednesday (Apr 15) after Tokyo laid out its opposition to Pyongyang&#8217;s nuclear programme in an annual&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}