Anti-DPRK outbursts of Japan Defense Agency chief assailed
KCNA
Pyongyang, May 20 (KCNA) -- Director general of the Japan Defence Agency Ishiba in an annual meeting blustered that Japan would neither be frightened by a threat of terrorism from the DPRK nor yield to a threat and blackmail. He also cried out for increasing the defence capacity of Japan allegedly to cope with the DPRK's "nuclear weapons program" and the development of long-range missiles.
His recent outbursts are part of Japan's anti-DPRK smear campaign intended to fan up the anti-DPRK sentiment now growing in the Japanese society, says Minju Joson today in a signed commentary.
It goes on:
Ishiba's talk about the DPRK's non-existent "threat of terrorism" and "threat and blackmail" is a link in the whole chain of premeditated and deliberate moves on the part of the Japanese ultra-right reactionaries to attack the DPRK and reduce the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration to a dead document so as to evade its commitment to redeem its past and keep the bilateral relations from warming up.
His outbursts are just the echo of the assertions made by the U.S. pursuing the policy of stifling the DPRK with nukes.
It is an unchanged ambition of the Japanese reactionaries to join the U.S. in its moves for a war of aggression in a bid to step up the conversion of Japan into a military power aimed at realizing overseas expansion and stage a comeback to Korea.
The Japanese militarist fanatics' attempt to provoke the DPRK with such nonsense is as foolish an act as inviting misfortune.
The army and the people of the DPRK are fully determined to force Japan to pay for its crimes in the past a thousand times.
Once an opportunity presents itself they will not miss the chance but vent their pent-up grudge against it.
The Japanese reactionaries are well advised to ponder over their suicidal act.
