"We need to hit with nuclear missiles": Japan offers options for the return of the Kuriles
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the decision of the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to resign, put hidden pressure on the new Prime Minister of Japan. Readers of the Japanese edition of Yahoo News Japan commented on the article and speculated about the options for returning the Kuril Islands.
According to the newspaper, Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that with Abe's resignation, the issue of a peace treaty between the countries did not become closer. The activities of the Japanese Prime Minister Peskov assessed positively, noting that he made a significant contribution to the development of Japanese-Russian relations.
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At the same time, the aide to the Russian president noted that in deciding the peace treaty between the countries, Abe put the territorial problem first, and only then the signing of the treaty itself, so the positions of Tokyo and Moscow, although they were the same, did not overlap. The author writes that Peskov "harshly" emphasized that the countries did not come close to solving the main problem.
In this statement by Peskov, the Japanese publication saw signs of hidden pressure on the new Japanese prime minister if the Japanese basic principle is preserved: "first return the islands, only then a peace treaty." According to the author, Russia is putting pressure on Japan to choose another way of concluding a peace treaty without claims to the "Northern Territories."
This article provoked the outrage of some Japanese readers:
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