On July 13, the Japanese government announced its “2021 White Paper on Defense” following last year’s, where it had found fault with the DPRK again calling it as “a grave and imminent threat” to its security.

The criminal state Japan has moved full steam ahead, in the period of the post-World War II, along the road to militarize itself and become a military power in revenge for its defeat even it is placed under all kinds of political and legal restraint.

“Self-Defense Forces” of Japan has now turned itself into a world power of aggression armed with state-of-the-art military equipment. The adoption and effectuation of the “Security Law”, which tolerates the right to collective self-defense, made it possible to expand its theater of action beyond its territory even into outer space, cyberspace, electromagnetic wave etc.

Japan, in its “White Paper on Defense”, rationalized its attempt to reinforce its armed build-up. On the other hand, it put down clearly in full about the “threats” coming from its neighbouring countries and revealed its ambition to plunder the territory while poking its nose, at every chance, into the internal affairs of not only the DPRK but also the neighbouring countries.

The “White Paper on Defense” issued by Japan this time is nothing but revelation of its ulterior motive to cover up its true colors as the main culprit responsible for disturbing peace and security of the region and push ahead with its attempts to fabricate a wartime constitution and become a military power by maximizing the “threats” from its neighbours.

It is none other than Japan which is dead set on isolating and stifling the DPRK while conducting frequently its aggressive military exercises in the surroundings of the DPRK, not satisfied with development of the latest military hardware and deployment of murderous equipment through its increased defense budget on an annual basis.

The farce of issuing the “White Paper on Defense” this time shows that the present government of Japan inherited as it is the evil practice of the Abe government which, if the occasion offers, was in the habit of realizing its insidious political and military purpose by creating a fear complex in the Japanese society over the “missile threats” from the DPRK.

The reality proves that the threat of destroying peace and security of the region is coming from the very Japan.

Japan’s “White Paper on Defense” is the “White Paper on Reinvasion” turning black into white with its undisguised ambition of reinvasion.

Ri Pyong Dok

Researcher of the Institute for Studies of Japan

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea