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Rodong Sinmun Warns against Japanese Militarism

KCNA

    Pyongyang, December 25 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionary ruling forces have got more desperate than ever before this year in their moves to turn Japan into a military power for overseas aggression and their hostile policy toward the DPRK, openly challenging peace, Rodong Sinmun today says in a signed article. This year, the Japanese militarists have rounded off the legal mechanism for overseas aggression and frantically hastened the conversion of Japan into a military power, thus opening a broad road for it, the article notes.
    Branding the adoption of an "emergency law" in Japan in May as the most reactionary legal measure demolishing the foundation of the present constitution which bans war and legalizing the establishment of a war structure, the article says:
    This year, the Japanese reactionaries set forth the conversion of Japan into a military power as one of the two major military tasks, the other being the legal arrangement for overseas aggression, and have madly pushed it forward.
    Japan has taken measures to send a new fleet of warships of its "Self-Defence Forces" (SDF) to the Indian Ocean, while extending the operational period of its SDF there. And it took a reckless military step to dispatch the forces of three services of the SDF by adopting a "law on the dispatch of forces to Iraq" to keep up and expand military activities overseas.
    The laying of the militarist ideological foundation has been stepped up frenziedly in Japan while these military moves gathered force.
    Thus the work for the establishment of a war structure, the building of a militarist ideological foundation, conversion of Japan into a military power and military operations overseas have reached an extremely dangerous stage this year.
    What must not go unnoticed is that the Japanese reactionaries this year have got more hysteric than ever before in their hostile policy toward the DPRK. The Japanese reactionary forces in power, zealously following the U.S. hostile policy to stifle the DPRK, have run about with bloodshot eyes to isolate and stifle the DPRK through the formation of a worldwide encirclement ring around it by turning the DPRK's "nuclear issue" into a political and international problem.
    The course covered by Japan this year indicates that the nature of Japanese militarism remains unchanged and its aggressive designs have gone beyond the limits.
    It has been patently proved that Japan is not a "peace state" but a very dangerous war state and aggressive force.