Seoul: Tokyo-Pyongyang breakthrough could undermine sanctions against N. Korea’s WMD program

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North Korean chief delegate Song Il-Ho, left, and his Japanese counterpart Junichi Ihara arrive for talks in Stockholm, Sweden. /AP

SEOUL — The recent North Korean-Japanese agreement could undermine the U.S.-led international sanction regime aimed at curbing Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile activities, government sources and analysts here say.

Under a surprise accord announced May 29, Japan would ease the strict sanctions it imposed on North Korea in 2006 in return for Pyongyang’s pledge to open a new investigation into the fate of Japanese citizens it abducted in the 1970s and 1980s.

Japan’s sanctions cut off a lucrative cash and commercial pipeline to the Stalinist regime from the sizable pro-North ethnic Korean community in Japan.

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