Pyongyang, November 3 (KCNA) — A DPRK military commentator made public the following article “Intolerable is the moves of the neo-militarist forces of Japan to acquire the capability for making a preemptive attack inviting a vicious cycle of the escalation of the regional tension” on November 3:
Japan, a defeated nation accelerating its transformation into a warfighting state after throwing off the veil of “pacifist state”, persists in its moves to acquire the capability for making a preemptive attack. It is further escalating the geopolitical tension.
Its latest example is the participation of the type 25 surface-to-ship guided missile launcher of the Ground Self-Defence Forces in the largest-ever joint military drill Keen Sword staged in different parts of Japan from October 19 to 29, involving 45 000 troops from the Self-Defence Forces and 12 000 soldiers from the U.S. army.
It is a well-known fact that Japan remodeled the Ground Self-Defence Forces’ type 12 surface-to-ship guided missile with a firing range of 200km into the type 25 one with a firing range of over 1000km last year and deployed the relevant equipment in Kumamoto Prefecture of Kyushu area bordering the DPRK and China in March this year.
However, it was reported that Japan relocated the type 25 surface-to-ship guided missile launcher and the relevant equipment in the training grounds in Nagasaki and Saga prefectures for the first time during the drill to share the information about a target simulating the enemy’s warship with the U.S. forces and confirm the launching procedure.
What is more serious is that Japan did not hide the fact that the drill simulating the missile launch was aimed to test the rapid deployment of the offensive weapon system with the coast of China and the DPRK in the striking range and the capability for the anti-warship operations when it opened the drill to the media.
This year the moves of the neo-militarist forces of Japan to acquire the capability for making a preemptive attack on neighboring countries have assumed more radical, undisguised and regular aspects.
Between May and September alone, Japan launched the type 88 surface-to-ship guided missile and test-fired Tomahawk long-range cruise missile in succession on the northern coast of the Luzon Island of the Philippines and in the Pacific Ocean, and the U.S. forces’ mid-range missile launching system Typhon was involved in the large-scale joint military drill it staged with the U.S. and Australia.
Such ever more unscrupulous military moves go against the international law and domestic law disallowing Japan to possess a war potential and the right to take part in any war or right to belligerence. They clearly prove that the moves of the war criminal state to turn itself into a military giant have entered an extremely dangerous phase as it is crazy about the deployment of the long-range offensive weapon for action, not content with its scheme to acquire the capability for making a preemptive attack, advocating the “story of threats from neighboring countries”.
Japan has massively procured different kinds of long-range strike means with heightened unexpectedness of attack and drastically increased operational radius and accelerated its moves to deploy them for action in multi-domain spaces such as ground, sea, underwater and air. This is the present reality of Japan’s moves to acquire the capability for making a preemptive attack.
It is an uneasy opinion of the international community aspiring after justice and peace that Japan’s military power has completed its transition from “defence” to “attack” and Japan’s rush with right-wing inclination is creating a direct and realistic threat to regional peace and stability.
The moves of the neo-militarist forces of Japan to possess the capability for making a preemptive attack, which is running amuck, obsessed with the dizziness of reinvasion, are a cancer-like factor that brings about a vicious cycle of escalating tension in the region.
The more desperately Japan is keen on possessing the capability for making a preemptive attack and the more frantic it is in its provocative and aggressive military drills with outside forces, the more closely its archipelago will approach serious, realistic and inevitable security crisis. -0-
