The policy section chief of the Institute for Japanese Studies under the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on July 17 issued the following press statement titled “Japan’s defence white paper is a war scenario for realizing its ambition for reinvasion from A to Z”:

Japan, obsessed with its ambition for reinvasion and busy securing the capability for preemptive attack, released the 2025 Defence White Paper.

In the document Japan again asserted in a way similar to other occasions that an “urgent threat” comes from the DPRK, China and Russia, finding fault with their just measures for bolstering up their military capabilities.

This is nothing but shameless sophism to cover up the threatening entity of Japan which is escalating the regional situation in a gradual way and justify its reckless moves to turn itself into a military giant, turning the whole area of the archipelago into a military outpost and logistic base for realizing the US hegemony-oriented strategy in the Indo-Pacific.

It is well known that Japan has recently formulated the possession of preemptive attack capabilities by revising the “national security strategy” and, for its realization, speeded up the development of home-made long-range missiles as well as the purchase of foreign-produced long-range missiles.

Japan, having increased its defence budget for 2025 to the largest scale in history, is resorting on a full scale to bolstering up its military capabilities more than ever before, while purchasing medium-range air-to-air missiles and long-range air-to-surface cruise missiles and related equipment worth about 3.7 billion US dollars from the US.

With this as the background, Japan is mulling deploying from this year US-produced 400 Tomahawk long-range cruise missiles and type-12 surface-to-ship guided missiles whose range was increased to more than 1 000 km and which were remodelled to operate not only on the ground but also in the air and sea.

Japan, a war criminal state, openly declared its possession of the capability for preemptive attack on the sovereign territory of other country and tries to possess long-range strike means with operational radius far beyond the range of the archipelago. This is a very dangerous attempt to violate and destroy peace and security in the region and rest of the world and push the regional situation to the touch-and-go situation.

Japan, which has so far styled itself as a “pacifist state” under the pretext of the principle of “exclusive defence” before the international community, is working hard to build the capabilities for carrying out war of aggression such as the long-range strike and trans-domain operation. This is not merely a passive or temporary countermeasure according to the “tension of the situation in the surrounding region” but a military policy orientation which it has persistently pursued for a long time since the time shortly after its defeat, setting it as a strategic goal.

The present developments clearly prove once again that the efforts of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to bolster up its nuclear war deterrence serve as an indispensable contribution to strongly suppressing the provocations of the US and its allies, which are becoming more undisguised worldwide, and to maintaining the strategic balance and stability in the region.

Japan’s defence white paper is a war scenario for realizing its ambition for reinvasion from A to Z, and its moves for turning itself into a military giant seriously threatening regional peace and security can never be tolerated.

The region and the international community should heighten due vigilance against the Japan’s ambition for becoming a military giant recklessly transforming day after day and resolutely oppose and reject it.

KCNA