N. Korea accuses Abe of playing up nuclear threat to win election

North Korea on Saturday accused Japan's ruling party of playing up a nuclear threat posed by Pyongyang to achieve a huge win in last weekend's general election.The North's Korea-Asia-Pacific Peace Committee also criticized Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for planning to ask U.S. President Donald Trump to ratchet up pressure on Pyongyang when he visits Tokyo early next month.In a statement carried by the country's official Korean Central News Agency, the committee claimed that in campaigning ahead of the Oct. 22 election, Abe's Liberal Democratic Party "kicked up a hysteric anti-(Pyongyan…READ FULL ARTICLE