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KCNA Indicts Japan for Its Moves to Emerge Military Power

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, June 29 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency on Friday released an indictment blasting the Japanese reactionaries' ever-more undisguised moves to turn Japan into a military giant.
    The indictment says:
    To turn Japan into a military giant is the policy goal of the Japanese authorities and their strategic line.
    Since its emergence the Abe cabinet has worked hard to perfect the legal groundwork for turning Japan into a military giant, talking about "departure from the postwar regime" and the "adoption of a new Constitution".
    In fact, the adoption of the "law on referendum" on May 14 provided Japan with a firm legal foundation for emerging a military power.
    The aim sought by the Abe cabinet in adopting the retrogressive revision of the Constitution as its political task is to convert Japan into a war state at any cost.
    The restructuring of state mechanism is one of the important tasks proposed by the Japanese authorities to convert the country into a military power.
    Japan upgraded the Defense Agency to the Ministry on January 9, thus securing a powerful means for developing the Japan "Self-Defense Forces" (SDF) into regular armed forces and acquiring the position of a military power. Afterwards, the Defense Ministry of Japan started overall reexamination of its mechanism.
    The establishment of an integral operational system whereby the commanding systems of the ground, maritime and air SDF are uniformly coordinated has been approved to coordinate the operational command over the armed forces.
    Japan is contemplating setting up a "national security council" of the Japanese version involving organizations in the fields of diplomacy, security and information, etc. in the wake of the creation of a "council to bolster information-gathering function" chaired by the chief cabinet secretary.
    Most noteworthy in the Japanese authorities' moves for turning Japan into a military power is the full conversion of the SDF into aggressor forces of offensive nature.
    They began equipping the SDF with ultra-modern war hardware which ensure high maneuverability, powerful striking force and increased operational capabilities on ground and in sea and air. These moves for an offensive purpose are being updated in all aspects and pushed forward at a final phase.
    The maritime force is their first thrust.
    The duty of the maritime SDF has been gradually shifted from "coastal defence" to carrying out the "strategy of ocean attack".
    Japan tops the world's list of anti-submarine and mine-sweeping and conventional submarine combat capabilities.
    Large-size prototype warships have been put on an offensive and IT basis with each passing day.
    Lurking behind the Japanese reactionaries' intensified moves to bolster its maritime SDF is a sinister intention to secure a powerful naval combat capacity and use it as a main springboard from which to launch a continental reinvasion just as they did in the last century.
    The air SDF has also been equipped with modern means as good as those of world military powers against the backdrop of the ever-increasing call for a qualitative edge.
    Japan is planning to introduce 100 U.S.-made F-22A fighters of the fourth generation from 2009 in a bid to secure longer-distance attack capacity. In the meantime, it also seeks to deploy Apache and AH-1 in a bid to be atop the anti-armor operational capability in Asia.
    The ground SDF has increased its maneuverability and firepower striking capacity while putting emphasis on coordinating operations in air and on ground. Its equipment are of special and diverse nature and wide in their operational sphere. Tanks and other vehicles are now being developed in the direction of cutting down their weight and boosting their performance, while maintaining a high degree of their mechanization so that they may be transferred and deployed in any operational theatre.
    The Japanese authorities' moves to stockpile strategic materiel should not be overlooked by the international community.
    The development of the latest military hardware to qualitatively bolster the SDF is in full swing.
    The above-said moves to turn Japan into a military power are being zealously supported by the right-wing foundations and major military industrial complexes.
    The SDF's military exercises are a preliminary war, a test war to "examine" the military power of Japan in the sky, ground and sea.
    The moves to turn Japan into a military power are, to all intents and purposes, dangerous actions to hold the military and technological edges, military hegemony for preemptive attacks and continental aggression.
    The Japanese authorities' above-mentioned reckless moves are driving the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war.
    The Abe cabinet intends to attain the ambition to stage a comeback to Korea through preemptive attacks, vociferating about "guarantee of security of Japan" and "military threat" from the DPRK.
    The Japan-U.S. joint missile attack system is also being rounded off.
    Espionage and plot-breeding operations against the DPRK are getting more pronounced.
    What should not go unnoticed is the fact that Japan began working out the "joint operation plan" stimulating "contingency" on the Korean Peninsula together with the U.S. from December last year.
    The drafting of the "joint operation plan," a more concrete version of "5055", a scenario for a war against the DPRK worked out by Japan and the U.S. in 2002, is expected to be finished by the coming autumn.
    Meanwhile, an increasing number of latest fighter planes and combat warships including nuclear-powered carriers are being forward-deployed in the western areas of Japan close to the Korean Peninsula.
    Discussions on "military sanctions" and "economic sanctions" against the DPRK are becoming hotter among the Japanese government authorities and heavyweights of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
    The Abe cabinet, militarism being a mode of its existence, is rushing headlong into turning Japan into a military power in a bid to realize at any cost the old dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere" its predecessors failed to do.
    Japan is a force of aggression and war that arouses the special vigilance of the international community.
    The world peace and security are now being threatened by Japan, a militarist state, which has emerged the biggest war force in the world next to the U.S.
    Japan's moves to emerge a military power will lead to an aggression against Korea and a war to conquer Asia and the rest of the world. Herein lies the danger of Japan's ever-more pronounced moves to emerge a military power.