The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday condemned the Japanese government for "joining the ultra-right forces against the DPRK" on the abduction issue and warned that it would cut inter-governmental contact with Japan.
The threat came after a recent Japanese report on Pyongyang's investigation into the fate of 10 Japanese Tokyo believes were kidnapped decades ago.
"We can neither accept nor admit the results (of the report) and resolutely rejects them," a spokesman of DPRK's Foreign Ministry was cited by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) as saying on Friday.
Japan said in the report that the DNA test proved the remains of abducted Japanese woman Megumi Yokota, which the DPRK handed over to Japan in November, are of "other two persons".
Tokyo also said the DPRK's efforts are not "enough" and urged the country to reinvestigate the case.
"Japanese allegation of the results is peppered with words totally negating the sincere efforts the DPRK has made for the reinvestigation into the issue of abduction and its results," the spokesman said.
"Japan has exploited the DPRK's sincere attitude for its political plots and hostile acts against the DPRK," he said.
"Now that it has become clear that the Japanese government has openly joined the ultra-right forces in their moves against the DPRK, Pyongyang no longer feels that any DPRK-Japan inter- governmental contact is meaningful," he added.
The spokesman said that the Japanese government should return the remains of Yokota through an official channel and thoroughly probe into the truth behind the case of the "DNA test" of her remains and apologize for it.