WASHINGTON — North Korean military hardliners have been critical of leader Kim Jong Il for apologizing to Japan for the abduction of Japanese nationals, a U.S. expert who visited North Korea in April said.

This makes it difficult for the North Korean leader to make a decision to break the impasse over the abduction issue with Japan, said Selig Harrison, Asian project director at the Washington-based Center for International Policy. He said the hardliners were angry because they think North Korea should never apologize to Japan, which colonized the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945. (Kyodo News)

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Don't worry north koreans. Kim wasnt really sorry anyway.

Amazing!

The N.Koreans can criticize Kim Jong Il.

atleast he apolagized.. unlike the japanese who still till this day will not fully apolagize for what they did.

I dont give a damn what he did. fu-k his appology. If he was sorry he would have given them back.

Their dear leader doesn't like people criticize him. It's a matter of time before they are tracked down and put in a death camp.