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Japan's Projected Naval Exercises Assailed

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- The Japanese government recently declared that it would stage joint naval exercises, pursuant to PSI in waters off Tokyo Bay this October under its own sponsorship. A signed commentary of Rodong Sinmun Saturday dismisses this as a product of the sinister intention of the Bush administration to escalate its policy to isolate and blockade the DPRK.
    By staging these maneuvers in waters close to the DPRK the U.S. seeks to demonstrate the anti-DPRK international cooperation and input into it those countries around the DPRK in a bid to escalate the above-said policy, the commentary says, and goes on:
    The ulterior aim of the U.S. is to make the PSI system more feasible and viable and focus the international pressure on the DPRK.
    The DPRK can not but take a serious note of the Japanese authorities' intention to host the exercises at the instigation of the U.S. It can not but be a very unsavory behavior for them to host the exercises targeted against the DPRK pursuant to the U.S. policy to isolate and blockade the DPRK at a time when there is an atmosphere of improving relations between the DPRK and Japan.
    The Japanese authorities are busy kicking up an anti-DPRK row dancing to the U.S. tune while talking about the implementation of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration and the normalization of bilateral relations. This double-dealing attitude compels the army and people of the DPRK to heighten their vigilance against them.
    What will happen if such confidence that international law and the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration would deter war, pressure and awe collapses? Then it would be unavoidable to raise a demand for another kind of deterrent force. The U.S. and the Japanese authorities are well advised to stop running wild, pondering over the grave consequences to be entailed by the above-mentioned reckless maneuvers.