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Japan's Moves for Preemptive Strike at DPRK under Fire

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

   Pyongyang, December 11 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionaries are now putting spurs to boosting the capability to defend the metropolitan area from missile strikes, blustering that it is essential to form a dense network for intercepting missiles in order to cope with the "missile threat from north Korea." These outbursts come under fire by a signed commentary of Minju Joson Tuesday.
    Lurking behind the noisy call made by the Japanese reactionaries for establishing a missile defence system (MD) while taking issue with missiles of the DPRK is a sinister intention which should not be overlooked, the commentary observes, and goes on:
    Japan is provided with a "nuclear umbrella" by the U.S. according to the "Japan-U.S. Security Pact" and a series of other agreements. An atmosphere of peace and detente is strongly felt on the Korean Peninsula, Japan's neighbor.
    There is, therefore, neither need for Japan to worry about its security nor any justification for it to accelerate the modernization and deployment of weaponry and equipment of strategic nature.
    This is the very point that makes the Japanese reactionaries feel uncomfortable.
    It is their calculation that only when the situation in the surrounding areas remains unstable and security concern increases, can Japan round off the moves for emerging a military giant, a material guarantee for overseas militarist expansion, at a high level under that pretext. But the situation is developing quite contrary to their expectation.
    That is why they continue making much ado about "missile threat from north Korea" which can convince no one.
    Japan is paying particular attention to building the MD to protect the metropolitan area for the purpose of rounding off its capability to mount a preemptive attack on the DPRK.
    It is the real purpose of the Japanese reactionaries' establishment of the MD to neutralize the DPRK defence capability and secure military conditions for making preemptive strikes at the DPRK any time.
    Japan has already built the military force for overseas invasion targeted not only against the Korean Peninsula but the Asian continent.
    The Japanese reactionaries would be well advised to be prudent, bearing in mind that their military overseas expansion leads to their self-destruction.