Japan urged to act with discretion
KCNA
Pyongyang, May 1 (KCNA) --Japan began in-flight refueling exercise involving U.S. KC-135 tanker and F-15 fighter jets of Japan's air "Self-Defence Force" in the sky above Shikoku in west Kyushu on April 21. The exercise is reportedly termed a mock exercise for a joint exercise with the U.S. air force slated for early June.
Rodong Sinmun today says the current in-flight refueling exercise is aimed to increase long-range operational capability of the "SDF" and make preparations for striking regions and targets far from the Japanese territory any moment.
The news analyst further says:
The overseas aggression by the Japanese militarist forces is primarily targeted against the DPRK and such moves are becoming all the more undisguised at a time when the U.S. is intensifying its anti-DPRK campaign.
They are escalating their moves for "SDF's" overseas expansion and the conversion of Japan into a military power under the pretexts of Japan-U.S. "cooperation" and "anti-terrorism."
The on-going exercise is designed to promptly cope with the "event of contingency" on the Korean Peninsula, a new dangerous military move of the Japanese militarists to stage a comeback to Korea.
Such sabre-rattling is no more than a foolish act of those seized by a militaristic ambition to launch reinvasion with the backing of the U.S.
Japan's militaristic rush will only precipitate its self-destruction. Japan should properly judge the mindset of the people at home and abroad and the trend of the times and act with discretion.
