Pyongyang, July 18 (KCNA) -- Japan, obsessed with militarist fever, is more frantically resorting to the moves to sharpen the sword of reinvasion in collusion with outside forces.

The Japan minister of Defense recently held a confab with the defense ministers of Britain and Italy and agreed to accelerate the joint development of the next generation fighters.

Japan, which had already embarked on its own fighter development with Mitsubishi heavy industry and other evil war criminal enterprises as the main axis, allured Britain and Italy into the "joint development" from December 2022, and shamelessly dubbed it an "international combat aviation plan".

Japan established an "international organization" as the headquarters tower of "joint development" at the end of last year and appointed a former official of the Ministry of Defense as its first chief. It formally set up a joint venture for designing fighters in June this year and is running amuck to hasten even its deployment.

The next generation fighter Japan is going to develop and deploy is known to be superior to the U.S. F-35 Stealth fighters and is a multi-mission fighter capable of attacking ground, naval and air targets.

It is clear to everyone that possession of such an attack fighter is not for "defense" as it goes far beyond the scope of defense.

The war criminal state, which had to make deep bows, talking about the abandonment of the right to belligerency and the non-possession of combat capability, while dropping the "crocodile's tears" before the international community for imposing huge misfortune and pains on mankind in the last century, is now getting hell-bent on possessing ultra-modern military hardware for preemptive attack. This is a violation of not only its constitution but also international law and a frontal challenge to mankind.

What matters is that Japan's moves for modernizing its armed forces under the signboard of international "research and development" are aimed at realizing the revival of the old imperial era by restoring the past "war alliance".

Frequently witnessed are the Japan's moves of strengthening military nexus with members of NATO, which has turned into the world's biggest war alliance and the worst confrontation group in history, that are at the same time the old "sworn friends" which had been involved in the "world division" after establishing the "blood alliance" in the last century.

Japan practically concluded with Britain and Italy the "agreement on mutual supply of goods and manpower" on mutually offering the necessary food, fuel, ammunition and other goods and manpower for their transport to the relevant countries in case of joint military drills and contingency.

And it concluded with Britain the "reciprocal access agreement" which makes it easy to mutually dispatch armed forces and conduct joint drills, defined the relations between the two countries as the "semi-alliance" in defense cooperation ranking next to the one with the U.S. and is staging joint drills under various names.

In this regard, Abe said that at the time when he was in office as prime minister he and then British Prime Minister Johnson shared recognition on the importance of expanding the allies and that they reached a consensus of views on bringing Japan and the U.K. into closer relationship as the "Japan-U.K. alliance" in the period of World War I. This fully reveals the sinister purpose of the descendants of the samurais.

It is a cunning trick of Japan to rally its allies with the "reciprocal access agreement" and the "agreement on mutual supply of goods and manpower" and thus launch reinvasion at any cost and regain the position of the old colonial suzerain state.

After all, Japan's pursuing of fighter development is not merely aimed at modernizing its military hardware but at expanding the military bloc to create an environment favorable for carrying out the war of aggression in the future.

It is a foolish dream to think that the sinister militarist nature of aggression and war can be covered up by the mask of "defense" or "joint research".

If Japan persists in military cooperation with the "groups" of the old era, obsessed with the ambition of the "Leader of the East" and without proper recognition of the trend of the times, it will face only self-destruction. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.07.18.)