Ri Myong Nam, an international affairs analyst of the DPRK, issued the following article titled “The danger of the US-Japan military alliance degenerating into a ‘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 US is going beyond the limit line.

Days ago, a foreign media disclosed that Japan and the US 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 US doctrine of using nuclear weapons in case a war breaks out in the East Asian region and confirmed them several times.

The media added that the fact that Japan and the US intensified discussion on the assumption of practical use of nuclear weapons was made public for the first time and it shows the US-Japan military alliance is turning into a dangerous “nuclear alliance.”

It is an open fact that the two countries have held one or two rounds of consultations every year since 2010 when it established the “dialogue system” for “extended deterrence.”

Last year, the US and Japan upgraded the “extended deterrence consultation” to the ministerial level and confirmed the “extended deterrence guidelines” which stipulates the standards of use of US nuclear weapons in contingency and procedure of mastering them.

In June, too, the US and Japan held “extended deterrence consultation” again and reconfirmed the “extended deterrence guidelines,” the product of the Biden administration, organized a visit of the Japanese officials concerned to the base of B-52 strategic bombers capable of mounting nuclear weapons and staged a desktop drill simulating the use of nukes.

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

In recent years the US has stepped up the rotational deployment of nuclear strategic means in the forward areas of 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.

At the same time with this, the political circles of Japan are making such extremely bellicose remarks as “sharing of nukes” with the US, possessing of nuclear submarines, reexamination of the “three non-nuclear principles” and the approval 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” it failed to fulfil even by introducing US nuclear weapons with the backing of the US, its master, that tries to contain its strategic rivals in the region through the nuclear edge.

What should not be overlooked is the fact that Japan is often talking about “threat from the neighbouring countries” and making it a fait accompli that the target of the US-Japan “nuclear alliance” is none other than the DPRK and other neighbouring 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 a world’s hotspot, is an extremely dangerous scheme 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 US and frantic bellicose 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 climbing on the bandwagon 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-intensifying attempt of the enemy countries to expand the nuclear military alliance.

The closer Japan crawls under the US “nuclear umbrella” while offering the whole of the archipelago to its master as the nuclear outpost, the more its security concern will grow.

The international community should heighten vigilance against the aggressive and exclusive US-Japan relations degenerating into a “nuclear alliance.”

KCNA