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KCNA Comments on Japan's Move for "New Defence Program"

KCNA

    Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- The Japanese government decided to introduce the MD system and has planned to fundamentally examine the readjustment of defence power and the existence mode of the "Self-Defence Forces" and map out a "new defence program" this summer. The "guidelines on re-examination of defence power" decided at a recent security council meeting and a ministerial meeting of the Japanese government set forth the policy to counter the "new threat" of terrorism and missiles and further strengthen defence power for "peace and security of the international community."
    It is said that the "SDF" will change into an organization for multi-purpose operations including the "activities for international cooperation" besides the defence of Japan.
    Such movement clearly shows the political reality of Japan putting spur to the moves to become a military power and set out on overseas aggression.
    Japan is now actively pushing ahead with the moves to become a military power, pursuant to the U.S. move to establish the MD system.
    Japan's Defence Agency is about to get a budget of 800 billion ~ 1 trillion yen for the maintenance of interceptor missiles Patriot-3 and Aegis missiles to establish the MD network.
    Japan keeps dispatching the "SDF" overseas under the pretext of war against terrorism and, in particular, sending heavily armed troops of the "SDF" to the Iraqi war field under the signboard of assistance to post-war reconstruction of Iraq.
    Japan's move to work out the "new defence program" this year is intended to fix by law the present political reality, in which Japan is setting out on the road of overseas expansion with the backing of the U.S. indulged in hegemonic high-handed practices after the September 11 incident and lay a foundation to erase the article banning war in the "peace constitution" and change it into a war constitution.
    Phrases "coping with the new threat" and "activities for international cooperation" are nothing but a camouflage to legalize the arms buildup of Japan and overseas aggression of the "SDF."
    This is proved by the fact that Japan has escalated the position and mission of the "SDF" for "international cooperation" while intending to deploy a long-distance transport plane and large transport ship for overseas dispatch.
    All the facts indicate that the final target of the "new defence program" is to convert the "SDF" equipped with latest military hardware into the elite aggression force capable of performing overseas mobile military operations worldwide.
    Asian countries and the international community are standing guard over Japan's move to officially change its defence policy.
    If Japan hastens the move to become a military power and the way of reinvasion, overheated by its ambition for militaristic overseas expansion in the new century instead of liquidating its blood-stained history of aggression on Korea and other Asian countries, it would precipitate its final destruction.