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KCNA refutes Japan's talk about "threat from North Korea"

KCNA

    Pyongyang, July 8 (KCNA) -- Japan is working in real earnest to establish the Missile Defence System (MD) under the pretext of a missile threat from the DPRK. It recently decided to establish the MD by introducing standard missiles capable of intercepting missiles in outer space and patriot missile under the pretext of "coping with a threat of ballistic missiles from North Korea."
    It is said that Japan would start deploying missiles for an actual war at the earliest possible date after reexamining the 2001-2005 mid-term arms build-up program and spend about 200 billion yen for it.
    What matters is that it is pushing forward the establishment of the MD in real earnest, saying that it is possible for North Korea to possess the technology of manufacturing smaller nuclear weapons that can be carried by Rodong medium-range ballistic missile targeted against Japan.
    It is necessary to make it clear in this regard that the fiction about "missile threat" from the DPRK much publicized by Japan is nothing but a smokescreen to cover up its ambition to emerge a military power and launch expansion overseas.
    It is a well-known fact that the Japanese reactionaries have systematically stepped up the development of large carrier rockets under the pretext of "developing space."
    Japan test-fired large carrier rocket H-2A, called "perfect prototype rocket", easily convertible into an inter-continental ballistic missile to serve various purposes in the past.
    It has long attempted to have independent intelligence-gathering capability by introducing spy satellites.
    In January 1994 it started examining its plan to introduce spy satellites. In 1997 the defence agency set up an intelligence headquarters analyzing and dealing with information gathered by satellites. On the basis of such careful preparations Japan launched two H-2A to put spy satellites into orbit on march 28 this year and it is now making preparations to launch two more spy satellites.
    It is also stepping up the nuclear weaponization, another goal of its moves for a military power.
    From 1967 to 1970 Japan conducted basic researches into a nuclear policy and since 1995 it has carried out in real earnest researches into the nuclear weaponization.
    There were at least 50 nuclear power plants in Japan as of the end of 1998 which are churning out nuclear waste capable of producing a huge amount of plutonium every year. As if it were not enough with it, Japan has shipped huge plutonium from Britain and France for years.
    According to information released by officials concerned of green peace, Japan has stockpiled 38 tons of plutonium and would possess 110 tons of it by 2020.
    Japan is aiming to store 400 tons of plutonium in the future enough to produce 60,000 nuclear weapons.
    It is as clear as noonday that the final aim of Japan's moves to become a military giant and go nuclear is to launch expansion overseas, reinvasion of Asia and Korea is its principal target.
    The DPRK can not but be vigilant against Japan as it is working hard to establish the MD acting as a shock brigade in carrying out the U.S. strategy for a preemptive attack, a strategy for a nuclear war to destroy the DPRK.
    Japan should ponder over the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by its bellicose acts of infringing upon the dignity and the sovereignty of the DPRK.