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KCNA Warns against Japan's Moves for Overseas Aggression

KCNA

    Pyongyang, January 30 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionaries are now getting into full stride in their moves for overseas aggression, oblivious of the lesson of history. No sooner had the Japanese chief executive expressed his willingness on January 26 to dispatch a main unit of the "Self-defence Forces" to Iraq following an advance unit than Defense Agency Chief Ishiba ordered the main unit to Iraq. This gave the green light to military operations of a large unit of the SDF equipped with such heavy weapons as armored vehicles, recoilless artillery pieces and portable anti-tank bombs in combat areas overseas as a shock brigade of the U.S. forces.
    This means that the Japanese reactionaries have shaken off the veil of the "UN peace-keeping operations" they had been wearing and opened up a prelude to overseas aggression.
    The Japanese reactionaries' dispatch of the SDF combat troops to Iraq was prompted by their shrewd intention to give a helping hand to the U.S. in its awkward position and earn profits in the division of interests including oil. Another important aim sought by them in the troop dispatch is to build a framework for turning Japan into a military giant and militarizing it and secure a justification for overseas aggression.
    The Japanese authorities are now driving the Japanese society to the Right with all speed by whitewashing Japan's past history of aggression, paying visits to the "Yasukuni Shrine" and spreading ultra-nationalism while establishing the Missile Defense System, launching spy satellites and trying to have access to nuclear weapons in a bid to emerge a military power at an early date.
    Very disturbing developments brought to Japan today by the Japanese right-wing forces remind one of the eve of Japan's aggression of Korea and Asian continent in the past century and this indicates that the Japanese reactionaries' ambitious moves to militarize the country and turn it into a military power for reinvasion have been adopted as a state policy.
    What remains to be done by them now is to work out a war constitution whereby to mobilize all human and material resources as the final step to the completion of their preparations for a war of overseas aggression.
    In last November the Japanese chief executive openly called for revising the constitution and elevating the status of the SDF to Defense Ministry. And Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party Abe in his Fuji TV appearance on Jan. 8 cried for exercising right to collective self-defence and revising the constitution. All these were part of the attempts to remove the last roadblock in the way of reinvasion.
    It is a well-known fact that Japan has so far gnawed away little by little at Article 9 of the present constitution which bans the possession of a regular army and war by adopting "law on emergency," "law related to Japan-U.S. defence cooperation guidelines" and "law on anti-terrorism." But it is the first time for the chief executive and heavyweights of the ruling party to openly call for the exercise of right to collective self-defence and the revision of the constitution.
    It is as clear as noonday that once the Japanese society got militarized and turned into a military power such fascist elements as Tojo would appear on the scene and launch reinvasion, holding sway over the Japanese politicaldom
    Korea and other Asian countries are not what they were in the past when they were trampled underfoot and plundered by the Japanese imperialists.
    The Japanese reactionaries will never be able to evade a miserable lot if they keep pushing for militarization to become a military power.