Specification of “Exception of Three Non-Nuclear Principles” Planned by Japan Is Just Prelude to Realization of Nuclear Ambition: KCNA Commentary
Pyongyang, November 15 (KCNA) — The dangerous neo-militarist moves of Japan, a war criminal state seeking to disrupt the postwar international order and change the balance of dynamics in the region, are running toward the realization of its nuclear ambition.
It was recently disclosed that the Japanese government has examined an option to “defer” the amendment to the controversial “Three Non-Nuclear Principles” and, instead, specify an “exception” allowing the introduction of nuclear weapons in “emergencies” on the “National Security Strategy”, scheduled to be revised within this year.
As for the “Three Non-Nuclear Principles”, it was proposed by Sato, the then prime minister of Japan in 1967, and adopted by its Diet as a state policy in 1971. The gist of the principles is to ban the possession, production and introduction of nuclear weapons.
Japan now seeks to specify the “exception” of allowing the introduction of nuclear weapons in “emergencies” while “maintaining” the principles.
This is an expression of dangerous scheme to realize the ambition of Japan for turning itself into a military giant with the help of U.S. nukes and, furthermore, to lay a springboard for its own possession of nukes.
In retrospect, Japan’s history of 80-odd years after its defeat has been the course of rushing headlong into the attainment of its revanchist goal, which is to revive itself as a war state while removing the shackles put on the war criminal state one by one through cunning wordplays.
After the defeat, Japan unwillingly adopted the “Pacifist Constitution” under the sharp gaze of the international society. But, it broke through the restricted line of the constitution with shameless interpretation that “observing the will for war renouncement does not mean the abandonment of the right to self-defense” and openly created the ground, naval and air forces in 1954 and named them “Self-Defense Forces”.
Later, Japan cooked up the “international peace cooperation act”, “law on special measures against terrorism” and “emergency legislation” to open up a way for the SDF to advance abroad. And it formulated the possession of preemptive attack capability in 2022 under the signboard of “counterattack capability” to develop the SDF into armed forces for aggression war.
This year, Japan retrogressively and totally revised the “Three Principles on Transfer of Defense Equipment and Technology” and its operational guidelines to allow the export of all kinds of weapons of destruction and made sure that the weapons are supplied into disputed area in “special case”, revealing its true colors as a bellicose force.
Japan, which actually reduced the “Pacifist Constitution” into the dead one through the invention of “exceptional war law”, is now trying to make even the “Three Non-Nuclear Principles” useless, talking about the “possession of nuclear weapons”.
The Japanese public at home is growing increasingly discontent with the evermore reckless neo-militarist moves of the present regime, saying that “Japan should not weaken its restrictions on nuclear weapons”, “the revision will cause much harm to the archipelago’s security” and “Japan should not be allowed to become a nuclear war base.”
The regional and international communities, too, are strongly denouncing and opposing Japan’s reckless attempt to retrogressively revise its nuclear policy, saying that Japan’s revived militarism will aggravate the tension in Northeast Asia and that the present Japanese regime’s scheme to get rid of the restraint on nukes pose a grave threat to peace and stability in Asia and the rest of the world.
The “exception” raised by Japan is nothing but a cunning trick to cover up its sinister purpose to calm down the bitter criticism at home and abroad, and bring down the taboo measures pursuant to the “Three Non-Nuclear Principles” one by one and, in the long run, turn them into a wastepaper.
Japan has stockpiled huge amount of plutonium enough to produce thousands of atomic bombs and gained the nuclear technology for military purpose. And it is now calling even for the possession of nuclear submarines. Such reality clearly proves this.
Though more than 80 years have passed after its defeat, Japan is still and persistently denying its past history of bloody aggression while seeking the overseas expansion out of revenge. It is as clear as noonday that if the neo-militarist forces take nukes in their hands, they will surely inflict a terrible nuclear disaster on mankind.
What should not be overlooked is the fact that while specifying the “exception” of the “Three Non-Nuclear Principles” in the “National Security Strategy”, Japan is simultaneously trying to include the provisions for operating war machines such as “increase in defense cost”, possession of nuclear submarines and introduction of “new combat modes” in the “National Defense Strategy” and “Midterm Defense Capability Buildup Outline”.
The specification of “exception” planned by Japan is the start for the realization of Japan’s nuclear ambition.
The dangerous behavior of the Japanese neo-militarist forces to bury nuclear time bomb in the Asia-Pacific region while openly pursuing the ambition for nuclear weaponization requires us to defend regional peace and security more firmly with the absolute superiority of strength.
The international community aspiring after justice and peace should never allow such attempt for nuclear armament of Japan, a war criminal that invites a terrible catastrophe to stability in the region and the rest of the world. -0-
