KCNA urges Japan to behave with discretion
KCNA
Pyongyang, April 9 (KCNA) -- Unusually noisy war outcries against the DPRK are heard from Japan after the outbreak of the U.S. Iraqi war.
Naoto Kan, representative of the Japanese Democratic Party, was reported to have asserted, referring to the counter-action in case of emergency, at a seminar in Sapporo on April 5 that Japan should leave the nuclear deterrence to the U.S. and the main job of the self-defence forces is to counter other forms of attacks except nuclear one.
He also said that there is a call in the diet for destroying such a country as North Korea as early as possible.
What should not be overlooked is that his outcries are timed to coincide with the assertion made by Ishiba, director general of Japan Defence Agency, calling for making a preemptive attack on the DPRK.
An endless string of war outcries in Japan calling for containing the DPRK by force indicates what a dangerous phase the Japanese reactionaries' attempt to stage a comeback to Korea has reached.
By counter-action in case of emergency they mean a contingency on the Korean Peninsula, i.e. the second Korean war.
Japan put into orbit two spy satellites and decided to deploy more aegis warships of its maritime self-defence force in waters off the Korean Peninsula, saying that North Korea may take actions to focus the attention of the international community and may launch a missile while the U.S. Iraqi war is under way.
The chief cabinet secretary of Japan even blustered that the strengthened Japan-U.S. tie-up will prove effective in deterring the threat from North Korea.
Such unprecedentedly reckless military moves of Japan can not but arouse the DPRK's high vigilance as they indicate that Japan is in the process of rounding off its moves to cope with the emergency on the Korean Peninsula at its final stage.
The Japanese reactionaries have long worked hard to revive militarism through the world's second biggest military spending . They are now keen to make a good use of the Iraqi war and the situation in its surrounding countries for seizing an opportunity to reinvade Asia.
Japan openly supported state-sponsored terrorism against Iraq perpetrated by the U.S., which is massacring Iraqi people in wanton violation of the UN Charter and defying the world people's opposition to the war. Japan's such loyalty to its master lays bare the sinister intention sought by the Japanese reactionaries to hold their unchallenged position in Asia with ease.
Japan is turning to the right and is getting militarized at such a rapid tempo that the call for destroying the DPRK, a legitimate sovereign state, is heard in the diet. This is a clear indication of the gravity of the situation.
The Japanese reactionaries seem to have lost their reason under the impact of the Iraqi war launched by their master.
Japan's attempt to contain the DPRK under the pretext of coping with the emergency, timed to coincide with the nuclear crisis sparked by the U.S. on the Korean Peninsula, will only precipitate its self-destruction.
Japan should behave with discretion, clearly mindful that it is also within the striking range of the DPRK.
