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Japan's "Defense Program Outlines" Slammed

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, January 19 (KCNA) -- The new "national defense program outlines" adopted and made public in Japan on Dec. 10 last year is a dangerous blueprint of overseas aggression and a war scenario, states Rodong Sinmun in a signed article today. The article says:
    With the adoption of the "outlines", the Japanese reactionaries nullified the previous "exclusive defense" policy and specified an offensive strategy.
    In other words, it allows Japan's "Self-Defense Forces" to directly launch into a war action by permitting the exercise of "the right to collective self-defense".
    The total repeal of the "exclusive defense" policy means permission of Japan's aggressive military operations overseas and change of the present "peace-keeping operation" into an aggressive offensive operation.
    The militarist forces of Japan have made it plain that the adoption of the new "national defense program outlines" is aimed to cope with "new threats", that is "threats" from the DPRK and China. This is little short of the declaration of a war to the DPRK and China.
    Japan is no longer "a pacifist state", but has emerged an aggressor force and a warlike state, both in name and reality.
    The Korean army and people will increase their self-defensive military capabilities in every way, now that the Japanese reactionaries in the new "outlines" have designated the DPRK as a target of their military attack, revealing their intention to do harm to it. And they will mete out a merciless punishment, if the latter dare encroach upon the sovereignty of the DPRK in the least.
    If the militarist forces of Japan take to the road of overseas aggression, failing to draw a proper lesson from the disgraceful defeat suffered by the Japanese imperialists in the past, they will be entombed forever after facing a stern judgment by history.