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KCNA urges Japan to honor spirit of DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration

KCNA

    Pyongyang, March 22 (KCNA) -- The director general of the Japan Defense Agency and other high-ranking officials of the Japanese government let loose sophism that the DPRK's "nuclear issue" is the biggest factor of threatening the peace and stability in Asia and the Japan-U.S. security pact provides a deterrent force. These remarks are nothing but a cynical ploy to tarnish the image of the DPRK which has consistently striven on the international arena to ensure peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in the rest of Asia.
    It is ridiculous of Japan to talk about the DPRK's "nuclear issue" while stepping up in real earnest its nuclear weaponization to convert Japan into a nuclear power.
    Japan has for scores of years pushed forward its research with a view to having access to nuclear weapons since 1967 and has stepped up its policy to go nuclear in a premeditated way.
    Japan has stockpiled plutonium at nuclear power plants enough to manufacture thousands of nuclear warheads.
    High-ranking officials of Japan openly called for possessing nuclear weapons.
    It goes without saying that it is not the DPRK's "nuclear issue" but the Japanese reactionaries' moves to become a nuclear power, that pose a big threat to peace and stability in the region.
    However, Japan is persistently talking about "nuclear threat" from the DPRK. Lurking behind this is a sinister aim of Japan to play the role of a shock brigade in internationalizing the "nuclear issue" of the DPRK in a bid to realize its ambition to emerge a military power and overseas expansion with the strong backing of the U.S.
    It is the invariable wild ambition of Japan to establish its unchallenged domination over Asia through the tightened U.S.-Japan military nexus, toeing the U.S. line.
    Being keen to reinvade Asia, Japan actively took part in overseas military actions under the pretext of "logistic support" to the U.S. military operation for retaliation in the wake of September 11 incident and in the U.S.-led multi-national joint naval exercises, the biggest-ever annual exercise in Asia. It also came first to support the on-going U.S. attack on Iraq.
    Recently it is attempting to threaten the DPRK militarily while staging joint military exercise with the U.S.
    Japan should drop its old dream of the "Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" and its ambition for reinvasion of Korea. It should do what it should do to remain true to the spirit of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration for the peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in the rest of Asia.