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Rodong Sinmun Lambastes Japan for Upgrading Defence Agency to Ministry

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

   Pyongyang, January 14 (KCNA) -- The land of Japs on Jan. 9 upgraded the Defence Agency to a ministry. This is a very dangerous military step taken to reorganize the "Self-Defence Forces" into the offensive armed forces and prepare them so that they may be mobilized for a war of aggression any time. Rodong Sinmun Sunday says this in a signed article.
    It goes on:
    The militarists in the land of Japs has described their country as a "pacifist state" while crying for "peace" but they are now refusing to say the word "peace".
    In fact, they neither strove for peace nor wanted Japan to remain a pacifist state. Day and night they have been hell-bent on whetting the sword of reinvasion and made desperate efforts to create international circumstances favorable for it. The Japanese ruling quarters have not liquidated the past crimes though half a century has passed after the war but beautified and whitewashed the Japanese imperialists' history of aggression and justified it and become evermore pronounced in their moves to instill the militarist idea into the Japanese through visits to the "Yasukuni Shrine". These are aimed at creating the political and military circumstances to realize their ambition for reinvasion.
    If the Defence Ministry is to exercise its authority as the supreme armed forces organ in Japan, it can send armed forces to necessary regions and, furthermore, mobilize manpower and material resources of the country to war under the order and instruction of the prime minister without "approval" of the Diet which has been kept nominally. This is little different from the war commanding system which the Japanese imperialists established in the country before the Second World War.
    The Japanese militarists set forth preemptive attack as a new military principle and seek to put it into practice. That is why the ruling quarters of the land of Japs upgraded the Defence Agency to a ministry before the abolition of the "pacifist constitution" and, on this basis, are trying to put greater spurs to scrap it.
    If they opt for the territorial expansion, obsessed with the ambition for reinvasion, far from drawing a lesson from the past defeat, Japan will fall into a bottomless abyss.