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Rodong Sinmun Terms "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" Hypocritical

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

   Pyongyang, November 4 (KCNA) -- Japan's "three non-nuclear principles" remain in name only and are nothing but window-dressing to cover up its wild ambition for nuclear weaponization.
    Rodong Sinmun Sunday says this in a signed article.
    The Japanese authorities pulled the wool over the eyes of the international community, talking a lot about those "principles", but they have frantically pushed ahead with the moves to turn Japan into a nuclear base and its nuclear weaponization, the article notes, and goes on:
    The Japanese reactionaries noisily tout the above-said "principles" as a decoration advertising what they called "peaceful stand" but none of them reflect it.
    The hypocrisy of the "three non-nuclear principles" is clearly evidenced by the fact that Japan has turned into a nuclear base of the U.S.
    There is a "regime" between Japan and the U.S. whereby one side should have a prior consultation with the other side when shipping nukes into the Japanese territory. But the Japanese government has never exercised its right to inspect U.S. warships entering Japanese ports whether they carry nuclear weapons or not.
    At the tacit connivance of the Japanese government and under its patronage U.S. warships and planes carrying nukes frequent Japan with a "prior consultation" as a subterfuge.
    The hypocrisy of these "principles" also finds its expression in the fact that Japan worked out a plan for nuclear weaponization and has since pushed it forward as a state policy.
    Japan's ambition to go nuclear is clearly proved by the fact that the Japanese Foreign Ministry worked out a confidential document calling for acquiring the "capability to manufacture nuclear weapons" as early as in 1969.
    Japan had more than 50 nuclear power plants as of the end of 1998 churning out nuclear waste enough to produce a lot of plutonium every year. Not content with this, Japan has purchased a huge amount of plutonium from Britain and France for years.
    Japan's technology of manufacturing nukes and developing delivery means have reached the world's top level.
    The Japanese reactionaries are keen to make an effective use of nukes for realizing their wild ambition for overseas expansion, thinking that Japan suffered a defeat after invading other Asian countries because it was weak and had no nuclear weapons.
    They would be well advised to stop flouting the international community with those hypocritical "principles."