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KCNA Assails Japan's Moves to Establish MD

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, April 9 (KCNA) -- Japan is zealously joining the U.S. in its moves to establish the missile defense system (MD), arousing concern among the international community and increasing the threat to peace and stability around the Korean peninsula and in the Asia-Pacific region. The Japan Defense Agency is busy with preparations for MD. It began its work to revise the "law on the Self-Defense Forces" after setting up a missile defense section in it. It is planning to submit the amendment to a plenary session of the Diet next year.
    Then why Japan is getting so frantic in its moves to establish MD.
    One can find here the inveterate bad habit of Japanese politicians. Their appearance is quite different from their real intention and they are adamant in justifying their wrong views and assertions and crime-woven past.
    On December 19 last year when Japan decided to introduce MD, Chief Cabinet Secretary Fukuda made public a statement to the effect that MD is "the only means without any alternative for defending the lives and properties of the people" and conforms with "the idea of exclusive security" and "does not pose any threat to neighbouring countries."
    Foreign Minister Kawaguchi, referring to the decision, said "Japan intended to explain it to different countries around Japan".
    What is the need to explain it to neighbouring countries with so much zeal if MD is so vital and only means to defend Japan?
    Kyodo News reported that the chief executive of Japan said Japan should give other countries an impression that it is too weak to yield to a threat or lacks measures against aggression so that they may not think otherwise.
    This tells that the Japanese reactionaries' moves to establish MD are not aimed to defend the life of the people but assumes offensive and aggressive nature as they are designed to put surrounding countries under their control by force of arms under the pretext of a "threat" from someone.
    Their sophism intended to justify the unreasonable moves to establish MD is nothing but brigandish logic based on an anachronistic illusion as an assailant is painted as a victim.
    There was no need to establish MD in Japan in the past and there is no need today, too.
    During the era of the East-West Cold War Japan steadily increased its military muscle while talking about the "threat of the Soviet Union" and was keen on "economic growth", styling itself an "unsinkable aircraft carrier" under the nuclear umbrella of the United States.
    In those days modern military equipment such as missiles were deployed in surrounding countries but Japan did not openly talk about the establishment of MD to cope with the threat.
    The real crisis in the Japanese society was not caused by any "missile threat" from outside.
    Japan's reactionary and unpopular domestic and foreign policies including its policy of blindly toeing the U.S. line, its ultra-right politics, its moves to turn Japan into a military giant and its overseas expansion are posing a threat to its socio-political reality and future.
    Japan's stepped-up moves to establish MD is chiefly aimed to seize the golden opportunity of realizing its ambition to turn itself into a military giant and overseas expansion at any cost.
    As already known, after the appearance of the Bush administration the U.S. unilaterally withdrew from the ABM treaty and is pushing forward the establishment of MD at a phase of implementation and plugging Japan into it. By availing itself of this opportunity, Japan seeks to establish MD and secure an unchallenged position as a military giant through the application of the U.S. "preemptive attack" doctrine.
    An immediate chief aim of Japan's moves to establish MD is to reduce to a dead document the present constitution, the largest hurdle in legalizing the policy of turning itself into a military giant.
    In recent years Japan enacted a variety of laws related to war including the unconstitutional "law on emergency" in a bid to reduce the "no-war article" of the constitution to a dead document with the establishment of MD as a momentum. The right-wing reactionary forces of Japan took this as the golden opportunity of justifying the revival of militarism.
    Japan which drenched Korea and other Asian countries with blood, crying out for "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere", is resorting to such dangerous political and military adventure to become the "leader in Asia" with the U.S. backing once again.
    History proves that there is no limit to Japan's ambition for aggression and recklessness as well as shamelessness and craftiness.
    The Japanese authorities are pushing forward the introduction of MD under the pretext of defending "peace and stability," clamouring for the protection of "people's lives and properties". This can never be justified.
    If peace and security of humankind are to be preserved, all the people of not only Korea and other Asian countries, victims of the war of aggression committed by Japan, but Japanese and the peace-loving peoples of other countries should never tolerate the moves of Japan to turn itself into a military power and its ambition for oversea expansion.