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Minju Joson Assails Japan's Evermore Undisguised Moves for Overseas Expansion

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

   Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- Recently Japanese cabinet members, including Prime Minister Fukuda and Chairman of the Diplomacy Research Council of the Liberal Democratic Party Yamasaki, agreed to submit to the Diet a "permanent law" providing for the overseas dispatch of the "Self-Defence Forces (SDF)". The chief executive of Japan blustered at a press conference that they would pass the new "law" through the Diet at any cost.
    Commenting on this, Minju Joson today says:
    Such moves of the Japanese reactionary ruling quarters were evidently prompted by their ulterior motive to promptly hurl SDF troops into any part of the world any time in a bid to lay a springboard for overseas aggression and mount preemptive attacks on other countries.
    It is the invariable intention of the Japanese reactionaries to turn the SDF into regular armed forces and allow them to exercise the "right to collective self-defence" and thus legalize the overseas military actions of their aggression forces.
    The operational theatre of the SDF has already been expanded to vast areas in Asia, the Pacific and Indian Ocean, going far beyond Japan's boundary.
    Japan resumed its MSDF ships' mission of refueling warships of the U.S. and its allies in the Indian Ocean under the pretext of cooperation in the "war on terrorism." This means operational activities of the militarist forces in the above-said war for aggression.
    A campaign is making brisk headway to equip the SDF with modern, mobile and long-distance war means and arms buildup is being frantically accelerated to increase its capability for carrying out military operations overseas.
    Asia is now fraught with the danger of a new arms race and war due to the military hysteria kicked up by the Japanese reactionaries to launch reinvasion.
    Such war hysteria is little short of a criminal act of gravely threatening and disturbing peace and security in Northeast Asia and the rest of the world. This is, however, as foolish an act as inviting self-destruction.