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KCNA Blasts Japan's Claim to Tok Islet

KCNA

    Pyongyang, January 16 (KCNA) -- Recently Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi openly asserted that Tok Islet is part of "Japan's territory", while Taro Aso, minister of Public Management, Home Affairs, Post and Telecommunications, made provocative remarks at a ministerial meeting that Japan would "publish a stamp carrying Tok Islet", according to a news report. It is not the first time that the ruling quarters of Japan let loose such outbursts. In 1977, the then Prime Minister Fukuta made a territorial claim to Tok Islet at a meeting of the House of Councillors and the then Prime Minister Mori made the same claim at apress conference in 2000. Their outcries triggered off public furor and were bitterly denounced by the Korean people.
    Koizumi made the same brigandish assertion instead of drawing a lesson from this. This clearly shows how far the Japanese reactionaries have gone in their wild ambition for territorial expansion.
    This, at the same time, clearly indicates that the Japanese reactionaries are steeped in hostility towards Korea and consciousness of confrontation to the marrow of their bones and their aggressive nature still remains unchanged.
    In the last century, Japan carried out unprecedented wars of aggression and plunder to realize its wild ambition for territorial expansion, bringing horrible disasters to humankind.
    History still accuses Japan of its crime-ridden past when it ignited the Russo-Japanese war, invaded Manchuria and provoked the Sino-Japanese war and the Pacific war to massacre innocent people.
    Japan, however, has reappeared on the international arena as a chieftain of aggression with dangerous political and military potentials in a bid to realize its old dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere" it failed to do in the last century.
    This can not but touch off the anti-Japanese sentiment of the Korean and other Asian people.
    Emphatically speaking, Tok Islet is part of the inviolable territory of Korea from the historical and geographical point of view and in the light of international law. This is an undeniable hard fact.
    Nevertheless, the Japanese reactionaries have falsified the historical truth, painting Tok Islet as one belonging to Japan for scores of years. They have long looted a large quantity of marine resources there and used it for a military purpose of invading thecontinent.
    Koizumi visited the "Yasukuni Shrine" on the New Year's Day, openly revealing Japan's attempt to restore militarism and made a territorial claim to Tok Islet. This was a revelation of Japan's black-hearted design to actively step up its moves for the reinvasion of Korea and the rest of Asia.
    Reinvasion means destruction and it will lead Japan to a miserable ruin.
    The people and the army of the DPRK will heighten their revolutionary vigilance and foil every move of the Japanese reactionaries for reinvasion with the might of Songun.