• Military

• WMD Menu                           

• Introduction
• Systems
• Facilities
• Agencies
• Operations
• Countries
• Hot Documents
• News
• Reports
• Policy
• Budget
• Congress
• Links

• Intelligence
• Homeland Security
• Space

KCNA Refutes Japan's Talk about "Military Threat"

KCNA

    Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- Voices demanding the withdrawal of the U.S. troops from Okinawa are now growing strong in Japan. In response to this demand of different public circles of Japan its opposition parties are becoming assertive about the transfer of U.S. marines stationed in Okinawa abroad. Much upset by this, Japanese right-wing conservative forces are becoming vociferous about "military threat" of the DPRK in a bid to justify the presence of U.S. troops in Okinawa.
    Abe, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, who is ultra right-wing element, let loose sophism in his speech made in Chiba Prefecture on Nov. 2 that the "Japan-U.S. alliance" is aimed to "let the U.S. strike the north Korean missile base when it launches a missile" and protect Japan from it." Other right-wing elements also grumbled that the withdrawal of the U.S. troops would adversely affect Japan's "security". This is an expression of Japan's inveterate tendency of submitting to the U.S. This is quite understandable because the right-wing conservative forces are called special class pro-U.S. forces. But their remarks merit a serious attention. What matters is why they are becoming so zealous to peddle the DPRK's "threat" whenever an opportunity presents itself.
    Lurking behind their outcries is their sinister intention to accelerate militarization with the backing of the United States and realize their ambition to reinvade Korea and the rest of Asia at any cost.
    There are in Japan huge U.S. forces including many missiles targeted against the DPRK. It is a stark reality of Japan that its moves are being stepped up to emerge a military power. The Japanese reactionaries launched spy satellites and are building large warships, while accelerating the establishment of the missile defence-system.
    Director General of the Japan Defence Agency Ishiba in his recent interview with a British newspaper advocated the theory of preemptive attack by claiming that "Japan has the right to attack the north Korean missile base," talking about the so-called imminent missile attack of the DPRK.
    All this eloquently indicates what the Japanese reactionaries seek in peddling the DPRK's "military threat".
    Their notion is that the DPRK's forces that have defended its sovereignty from the U.S. threat of aggression for over 50 years pose a "threat" while the U.S. aggression forces and their moves to emerge a military power for reinvasion serve as deterrent forces. This is the militarist way of thinking peculiar to the Japanese right-wing conservative forces steeped in the pro-U.S. idea to the marrow of their bones.
    Japan was publicly branded as a war criminal state for turning Korea and other Asian countries into seas of blood and a shameful state that entered the new century without redressing its crimes committed in the last century.
    The world community will never remain an on-looker to Japan accelerating militarization under the absurd pretext of "threat" from the DPRK and heading for overseas aggression.