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Japan's Reckless Moves to Build Missile Shield Assailed

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

    Pyongyang, January 23 (KCNA) -- The Defense Ministry of Japan, shortly ago, announced that it would soon operate such new anti-air system as automatic alert and control system under the pretext of countering the "intrusion" of "unidentified" fighters and others.
    Meanwhile, the headquarters for space science research of the Japan Organization for Space and Air Research and Development completed the plan for examining the launch of the new small satellite on Jan. 12.
    These facts go to prove that the Japanese reactionaries' military moves to boost the missile strike capability have entered the phase of full-scale implementation. Minju Joson Wednesday says this in a signed commentary.
    It goes on:
    It is the strategic target and invariable ambition for Japan to build a missile shield and secure a military edge in Northeast Asia and realize its ambition for overseas invasion through preemptive missile strike at other countries.
    The moves of the Japanese reactionaries to build a missile shield in conspiracy with the U.S. have already gone beyond the phase of joint research and reached such a practical stage as joint development and deployment of missiles and actions to boost the missile strike capability. As a result, the danger of these military moves is increasing day by day.
    The Japanese reactionaries are spending a stupendous amount of funds for steadily updating the missile technology. This aims at modernizing weaponry and equipment of the Japan "Self-Defense Forces" to enable them to reinvade other countries independently, not being mere supporters to the U.S. war, and realizing at any cost in the new century its old dream of the "Greater east Asia co-prosperity sphere," which it failed to do in the past, through preemptive missile strikes at other countries.
    It is clear as noonday that if Japan is allowed to build the missile shield in real earnest, it will seriously threaten the regional peace and increase the military confrontation and danger of war.
    This indicates that Japan is chiefly to blame for wrecking peace and stability in Northeast Asia and the rest of the world.
    The Japanese reactionaries should bear deep in mind that their moves to build the missile shield for securing a military edge in Northeast Asia and mounting a preemptive attack would only precipitate their own self-destruction and immediately stop them.