North Korea Bashes Japan for Export Restrictions on South Korea
The Kim regime was not going to miss a chance to bash Japan:

North Korean media outlets are strongly criticizing Japan amid growing confrontation between Seoul and Tokyo over Japan’s trade restrictions.
Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of the North Korean ruling party, on Wednesday portrayed the Japan’s exports curbs on South Korea as retaliatory measures over the South Korean top court’s decisions on Japan’s forced wartime labor and accused Tokyo of seeking to realize its imperial purposes.
The paper also asserted that Japan has shown no repentance over its “sinful deeds” in the past and warned the North will not just sit and watch Japan trample the Korean people’s interests.
KBS World Radio
You can read more at the link, but notice how North Korea bashes Japan for its export restrictions on South Korea as being against the “Korean people’s interests”. This demonstrates how North Korea views South Korean citizens as part of their own population.

