Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- Ri Myong Nam, an international affairs analyst of the DPRK, issued the following article titled "The danger of the U.S.-Japan military alliance degenerating into 'nuclear alliance' should never be overlooked":

Japan's dangerous attempt to embark on the road of reinvasion by realizing its ambition for becoming a military giant with the backing of the U.S. is going beyond the limit line.

Days ago, a foreign media disclosed that Japan and the U.S. held a confab over the issue of offering "extended deterrence of nukes". At the confab, both sides cooked up detailed strategy and tactical plans related to the U.S. doctrine of using nuclear weapons in case a war breaks out in the East Asian region and confirmed them for several times, the media said.

The media said that it is the first time to open to the public the fact that Japan and the U.S. intensified the discussion of the issue of simulating the practical use of nuclear weapons and it shows the U.S.-Japan military alliance is turning into a dangerous "nuclear alliance".

It is the fact already open to public that Japan has regularly held one or two rounds of consultations every year from 2010 when it established the "dialogue system" for "extended deterrence" in collusion with the U.S.

Last year, the U.S. and Japan upgraded the "extended deterrence consultation" to the ministerial level and clarified the "extended deterrence guidelines" which stipulates the standards of use of U.S. nuclear weapons in contingency and procedure of mastering them.

In June last, too, the U.S. and Japan held "extended deterrence consultation" again and reconfirmed the "extended deterrence guidelines", the product of the Biden administration, organized a visit of Japanese interested people to the base of "B-52" strategic bombers capable of loading nuclear weapons and staged a desktop drill simulating the use of nukes.

Japan, which had so far hoodwinked the world public by talking about "pacifist constitution" and "exclusive defense", has staged an "extended deterrence" confab that makes the use of U.S. nuclear weapons a fait accompli in contingency. Not content with this, it regularly organizes its officials' visit to the U.S. nuclear base. This proves that the U.S.-Japan military alliance has turned into the level of practical "nuclear alliance".

In recent years the U.S. has stepped up the advance and rotational deployment of nuclear strategic means at major naval and air bases in Hawaii, Guam and Japan to maintain military supremacy in the Asia-Pacific region and, at the same time, staged joint military drills one after another with its junior allies by mobilizing strategic bombers and nuclear submarines in great numbers, pushing the regional situation to the dangerous touch-and-go situation.

Timed to coincide with this, the political circles in Japan are making such extremely bellicose remarks as "sharing of nukes" with the U.S., possessing of nuclear submarines, reexamination of the "three principles of denuclearization" and the acceptance of introducing nuclear weapons.

It is the general goal of Japan's sinister revenge-seeking intention to lay the foundation for turning itself into a military giant at any cost and realize its ambition for the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" even by introducing nuclear weapons of the U.S. with the backing of its master that tries to contain strategic enemies in the region through the nuclear edge.

What should not be overlooked is the fact that Japan is often talking about "threat from the neighboring countries" and making it a fait accompli that the target of the U.S.-Japan "nuclear alliance" is none other than the DPRK and other neighboring countries.

Japan's attempt to challenge the nuclear powers in the region by establishing the "nuclear alliance" with its master in the Asia-Pacific region, especially the Northeast Asian region, where the strategic interests of big powers are inextricably intertwined to make it the world hotbed, is an extremely dangerous attempt that can bring nuclear disaster to the world.

It is by no means fortuitous that the international community is showing strong vigilance, branding Japan's persistent nuclear cooperation with the U.S. and frantic powder-reeking military confrontation moves as an anti-peaceful war act of increasing the instability in the region and the danger of nuclear conflict.

Japan, the only A-bomb victim in the world, is recklessly availing itself of its master's strategy for nuclear hegemony, oblivious of its bitter past. This is a dangerous act of bringing self-destruction.

All the facts clearly prove that quite just are the DPRK's measures for bolstering up its self-defensive capabilities for ensuring the dynamic balance in the region and defending the sovereign territory of the state to cope with the ever-increasing attempt of the enemy countries to expand the nuclear military alliance.

The closer Japan crawls under the U.S. "nuclear umbrella" while offering the archipelago to its master as the nuclear outpost, the worse its security uneasiness will become.

The international community should heighten vigilance against the aggressive and exclusive U.S.-Japan relations degenerating into "nuclear alliance". -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.08.01.)