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KCNA Assails Japan for Trying to Discard "Peace Constitution"

KCNA

Pyongyang, September 2 (KCNA) -- The present Japanese chief executive at a recent press conference reportedly called for revising the main articles of the "peace constitution" including Article 9 stipulating the renunciation of war, claiming that now is the time to discuss on revising the constitution in real earnest. The secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan at a formal meeting disclosed that the party would submit to the diet a bill on conducting an opinion poll on the revision of the constitution at an early date next year.

Japan thus more undisguisedly revealed before the world its attempt to replace the existing constitution, which it regards as an obstacle to achieving its ambition to emerge a military power and start reinvasion by a constitution for aggression.

Already in last May the Japanese reactionaries proposed a draft bill on revising the constitution, the keynote of which is to recognize the exercise of the right of "collective defence" and have the Japanese "emperor" as head of state and invest the prime minister with the "right to proclaim a state of emergency throughout the country." No sooner had the bill been announced than it touched off a strong protest and denunciation of the public inside and outside Japan for its aggressive and reactionary nature.

Nevertheless, the Japanese reactionary forces are moving heaven and earth to draw up the constitution of aggression, regarding the constitutional revision as their supreme task. This indicates that Japan's criminal moves to revive militarism has reached a very dangerous phase and it is set to abandon the principle of "exclusive defence" it has advocated since the end of the Second World War.

Prompted by the political will of the ruling quarters to build an ideological and moral framework of militarism in all fabrics of society and realize militarization, Japan adopted such "emergency legislation" as second "general national mobilization order." In its wake the work for the revision of the constitution is being accelerated in real earnest and the framework of the "permanent law" has been provided.

Japan, which had once trampled Asia under its jackboots for aggression, is keen to draw up the constitution of aggression, far from earnestly working to liquidate its past and ensure peace. This is a grave threat to the peace and security of humankind and an unbearable challenge to the peoples of Korea and the rest of Asia.

The Korean people will never tolerate the reckless moves of the Japanese reactionaries to repeat the bloodstained history of aggression instead of redeeming their past crimes.