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Japan's Moves to Possess Armed Forces Assailed

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

    Pyongyang, December 3 (KCNA) -- The Japan Liberal Democratic Party deleted the sentence saying that "Japan shall not possess the three services of the armed forces" from Article 9 of the present Constitution and instead stipulated that "Japan shall maintain national defence forces for self-defence with the prime minister as their supreme commander" in its amendment to the constitution to be submitted to the Diet for examination. It also called for promoting the Japan Defence Agency whose status is lower than that of other government institutions to the Ministry of National Defence. Commenting on this, Minju Joson Saturday says:
    Japan was deprived of the moral and legal rights to possess armed forces as it remains a criminal state that brought untold misfortune and pain to humankind and suffered a defeat in the Second World War.
    The basic objective and true purpose sought by the Japanese reactionaries in calling for the possession of the armed forces are to rewrite the present Constitution, a stumbling block in realizing Japan's bid to emerge a military power, secure a legal justification for possessing armed forces for overseas aggression and on that basis step up its policy for militarist overseas expansion.
    The political and military mechanism in Asia-Pacific is undergoing a rapid change in line with the U.S. strategy to dominate the world. The U.S. has chosen Asia-Pacific as the most important vantage point upon which its vital interests hinge after reexamining its stand on it. It is now busy reorganizing its forces there.
    The Japanese reactionaries are trying hard not to miss this golden opportunity of realizing their wild dream.
    That was why the Japanese government readily accepted the U.S. side's demand for the realignment of its forces in Japan in its mid-term report submitted to the recent meeting of the Japan-U.S. Security Council despite its people's strong opposition and protest.
    The Japanese reactionaries should immediately stop their moves for militarist overseas expansion, clearly mindful that such reckless moves will only lead the country to a final ruin.