DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman denounces passage of bills in Japan
KCNA
Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- The house of representatives of Japan passed three bills to cope with "emergency" on May 15.
A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry Saturday issued a statement in this regard.
It says:
The three bills are "a bill on coping with an armed attack", "a draft amendment to the law on self-defence forces" and "a draft amendment to the law on setting up a security council."
They, in fact, specify Japan's mode of counteraction in case a war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula.
These bills, among other things, justify the Japanese SDFs' participation in a war of overseas aggression in "case of emergency" and stipulate ways of mobilizing civilians for a war.
This indicates that they represent laws and regulations for carrying out a war of aggression similar to the "law on the general mobilization of the state" in their nature and content, the law enforced by the Japanese imperialists to launch its continental aggression in the past.
Of late, Japan has stepped up in real earnest the SDFs' overseas advance under this or that pretext. It had already participated in the Afghan and Iraqi wars and other wars under the pretext of supporting the "war on terrorism."
The recent carriage of the bills once again laid bare Japan's true intention to significantly expand the sphere of the SDFs' use of armed forces and launch overseas aggression, a complete switchover from its former policy of exclusive defence.
This clearly shows what a dangerous phase Japan's moves to revive militarism have reached.
The Japanese authorities cited non-existent "threat" from the DPRK in a bid to seek the carriage of those aggressive and dangerous bills to cope with emergency. This, however, will entail serious backfire.
Japan has not yet shaken off the ill fame of an enemy state although more than half a century has passed since the end of the war. Therefore, its efforts to justify its war moves will further strain the situation on the Korean Peninsula, which has become complicated due to its nuclear issue, and escalate the military tensions among its neighboring countries and other countries in Asia.
Japan's ever more undisguised moves for militarization clearly testify to the fact that it was quite just for the DPRK to have increased its self-defensive capacity.
Japan, obsessed with a vaulting ambition to convert the country into a military power, has chosen the DPRK as its principal target. This situation compels the DPRK to take every possible strong measure to cope with it.
