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Japan's "Defense White Paper" under fire

KCNA

    Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- Papers here today carry signed commentaries branding Japan's "Defense White Paper for 2003" as a product of the deep-seated unilateral hostile policy of the Japanese ultra-right conservatives toward the DPRK and their policy of toeing the U.S. line. Noting that Japan is stepping up the modernization of its armed forces and its moves to emerge a military giant under the pretext of nuclear and missile "threats" from the DPRK, Rodong Sinmun says:
    It is to defend the sovereignty and the security of the country for the DPRK to build up a strong physical deterrent force. This does not pose any threat as it proceeds from the consistent policy of the DPRK government which defines independence and peace as the avowed idea of its foreign policy.
    As far as the relations between the DPRK and Japan in military aspect are concerned, it is the DPRK, not Japan, which is exposed to a threat.
    Japan's unilateral hostile policy toward the DPRK is all the more dangerous because it is intended to realize "the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." Its moves to introduce an interceptor missile system and its plan to build a carrier-type escort ship are, in essence, military preparations to revive the colonial system in Korea.
    Minju Joson says that Japan is not interested in a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue but seeks to render the situation complicated and use it as a justification for modernizing the "self-defense forces" and for becoming a military power.