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Japan's Territorial Claim to Tok Islet Flailed

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 27 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionaries' territorial claim to Tok Islet was not prompted by their misunderstanding of historical facts or ignorance of international law. It glaringly reveals their intention to justify Japan's past history of overseas aggression and the wild ambition of the revived Japanese militarist forces for expansion overseas. Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed article Recalling that stamps on Tok Islet were issued in Japan recently, the article notes it has been historically and legally proved that Tok Islet has been part of the territory of Korea since ancient times and, accordingly, Japan can never claim "dominion over Tok Islet." Japan claimed again "dominion over Tok Islet," the assertion that has long gone bankrupt, instead of fully redeeming its unprecedented past crimes against the Korean people. This is a wanton violation of the dignity and sovereignty of the Korean nation and an intolerable mockery of the nation.
    The Japanese reactionaries' claim is, in essence, aimed to launch military provocation against the DPRK.
    They seek to convince the world public that Tok Islet belongs to Japan and occupy the islet by force under that pretext and launch reinvasion of the whole of Korea, using the islet as a springboard.
    In fact, the Japan Self-Defence Forces have rounded off all preparations for overseas aggression, for the reinvasion of Korea for the present. Now they just require a pretext to do so. That was why they began clamoring for the dominion over the islet. It is their true intention to launch armed invasion of Korea under that pretext.
    The Japanese reactionaries' strategic plan is to seize economic interests and jurisdiction over the area of Tok Islet, to begin with, and put the islet under their complete control in a bid to establish a 200-mile unchallenged economic sea limit centering on it and monopolize their economic interests in the area. Furthermore, they seek to convert the islet into a military base and effectively use it for marching northward as they did in the past Russo-Japanese war. It is a major political and military objective of the Japanese reactionaries to use the islet as a springboard from which to realize their ambition for reinvading Korea. The Japanese chief executive's absurd territorial claim to Tok Islet is little short of the green light to the reinvasion of Korea.
    The Japanese militarist forces are set to stage comeback to Korea and rush headlong into overseas aggression, fluttering blood-stained "Hinomaru" and singing "Kimigayo" as they did in the past.
    Japan's reinvasion of Korea means digging its own grave.
    The Japanese reactionaries had better stop running amuck.