Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) -- Madness of Japan, a war criminal state, has reached an extreme.

Shortly ago, it was disclosed through a photo that a Korean map is hung on the wall of the office of Kono, minister of Defence of Japan, together with the "flag of rising sun shedding rays", the icon of the imperialist aggression.

It is not an issue that can be overlooked that the blood-stained flag of the war criminal state is with the Korean map in the office of the supreme commander of the armed forces of the state hostile to the DPRK.

It is clear evidence proving that the ambition of the barbaric island country to reinvade Korea has reached an extreme as it is little short of an intention to hoist again the colors of the Imperial Japanese Army which inflicted untold misfortune and pain upon the Korean nation in all parts of the Korean peninsula.

The Japanese reactionaries are making poor excuses that the map of the Korean peninsula is one of a lot of maps on the wall in the office and there is no special intention. These are nothing but sophism to cover their intention to invade Korea, which was brought to daylight.

They have made no hesitation to remark that they should usurp the holy land of the Korean nation through a war. Not content with this, they stipulated Tok Island as their territory in 2020 Diplomatic Blue Book once again.

The ongoing anti-DPRK and anti-Chongryon (the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan) moves and persistent moves for imbuing the rising generations of Japan with the distorted history are based on the revanchist ambition of the descendants of Samurais who are engrossed in the moves for reinvasion after fixing the hostile policy towards the DPRK as their national policy and invasion of Korea as their main strategy.

Japan is amassing troops of the "Self-Defence Forces" in strategic vantages favorable for overseas invasion under the deceptive pretext of the defence and recapture of the remote islands. This also clearly shows the black-hearted intention of the Japanese warmongers anxiously watching for a chance to reinvade.

It is the invariable aim of the Japanese reactionaries to invade Korea and expand the war of conquest to other countries on its basis.

All the facts go to clearly prove that the Japanese reactionaries are, indeed, the sworn enemy of the Korean nation.

The madness of Japan coveting for the territory of Korea generation after generation and working hard to fly the flag of the war criminal state on the land of Korea only redoubles the will of the Korean nation to settle accounts with Japan.

The Japanese reactionaries would be well advised to bear in mind that if they act rashly, oblivious of the history of the defeat, they would be brought to a miserable end. -0-