Sean: 納得できない

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Posted by Sean:
納得できない
http://whiteperil.com/posts/1214496219.shtml


   The families of Japanese abductees are, not surprisingly, [1]unhappy
   with the Bush administration's decision to remove the DPRK from its
   list of terrorism-sponsoring states:

     "Even though they tell us they won't forget...we can't accept
     this." On 26 June, when the United States government announced that
     it would drop North Korea from its list of states that sponsor
     terrorism, voices of despair and hopelessness were raised by the
     families of [Japanese] abductees, which had expected cooperation
     and effort from the US toward resolving the issue. The move also
     fomented mistrust toward the Japanese government, which approved of
     the removal: "Why didn't they take a harder line?"

   The families are questioning whether the US should have changed its
   position based on the documents submitted. Their bitterness is
   understandable--those who were abducted disappeared in the late '70s
   and early '80s, and several are still almost entirely unaccounted for.
   It's hard to say what the best approach is, though. Slowly coaxing the
   DPRK to open up--assuming such a thing is possible--may ultimately be
   the only way to get access to such records of the abductees as remain.

References

   1. http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/main/20080626AT1G2603M26062008.html