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KCNA Raps at Japan's Ambition for Overseas Expansion

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 13 (KCNA) -- The ambition of the Japanese reactionaries for territorial expansion has reached an extreme phase. It has been brought to light lately that the postal service corporation of Japan has recently published stamps on which Tok Islet is printed as part of the territory of Japan though it is an inalienable part of the territory of Korea. This is now touching off bitter resentment among the Koreans.
    Stamps which were printed three times till Feb. 19 were reported to bear the word "Takeshima" in Japanese and English below the picture of the islet.
    In the past the Japanese chief executives and other right-wing reactionaries made several territorial claims to the islet but this is the first time that Japan worked so desperately to establish dominion on this inviolable territory of Korea, openly distributing stamps carrying the islet marked as "Takeshima".
    What should not be overlooked is that the stamps were published right after the present chief executive of Japan made a reckless remark claiming that Tok islet was part of the Japanese territory. It is widely known to the world that he made similar remarks recently only to spark a great furor and rebuff at home and abroad.
    The Japanese reactionaries are working hard to convince the Japanese that the islet belongs to Japan in a bid to get them ready for a war to retake the territory, that is, a war of aggression against Korea and let the international community know beforehand that Japan has a dominium over the islet.
    Such far-fetched assertion that an inalienable part of the territory of other country belongs to Japan can be made only by the Japanese reactionaries hell-bent on territorial expansion.
    As far as Tok Islet is concerned, it is part of the inviolable territory of Korea. They have no ground to have an eye on this islet from a historical, geographical and legal point of view.
    The Korean ancestors had used the islet as the fishing ground, etc. generation after generation since they discovered it. According to records, it was 512 A.D. when the islet belonged to Uljin-hyon (county), Kangwon Province, Korea, in accordance with a state step. The fact that the islet is part of the Korean territory has been already clearly proved by the single fact that it was marked as part of the Korean land not only on maps of other countries but even on the Japanese map before the Japanese imperialists occupied Korea.
    Clear is the aim sought by the Japanese reactionaries in so persistently and shamelessly claiming that Tok Islet belongs to Japan, while negating such historical facts. They intend to deliberately kick off a "dispute over Tok Islet" and launch reinvasion under that pretext.
    They had better stop acting rashly. Japan's reinvasion will lead to its destruction.
    The army and the people of the DPRK will mete out a merciless punishment to Japan if it encroaches upon its territory and sovereignty even a bit.
    The Japanese reactionaries should withdraw at once their claim to Tok Islet", a product of their anachronistic ambition.