Pyongyang, March 20 (KCNA) -- The militarist entity of Japan, which has completely removed its veil of "exclusive defense", is openly coming out to the world.

Recently, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Restoration Party of Japan reportedly submitted to the prime minister a proposal on lifting in a principled way the ban on the export of all its weapons and equipment including lethal weapons.

The details of the proposal call for removing the five principles of the past that have limited Japan's equipment export to "disaster relief, transportation, guard, surveillance and clearing".

It is reported that if the proposal is formally passed through the prime minister, an issue of revising the system of arms export will be discussed even in the spring this year.

If this turns into a reality, Japan will be allowed to export fighters, escort ships, submarines and other lethal weapons and equipment to the countries with which it has signed an agreement on the export of "defense equipment" and the transfer of technology.

Japan has so far concluded the agreement with 17 countries and several Asia-Pacific countries are among them.

What should not be overlooked is that Japan is trying to remove the brake that it set as the principle not to transfer even non-lethal equipment to the dispute parties in the past.

This will legally allow Japan to export and support the lethal weapons to the "fellow country" where armed conflict broke out.

Militarist Japan's intention has become far too emboldened.

Dangerous and sinister intention is behind Japan's attempt to openly export the offensive lethal weapons to the countries with which it has signed the agreement on the export of the "defense equipment" and the transfer of technology.

Japan is drastically increasing its military expenditure every year and getting hell-bent on the development and introduction of various kinds of offensive weapons.

Based on this, the Japanese munitions industry, which has been limited to the delivery of military equipment to the "Self-Defense Forces", is expanding day by day to demand a new outlet and, thereby, is trying to advance to the hot spots of the world to meet its demand.

At the same time, Japan is trying to verify and confirm in a versatile way the advantages and disadvantages of its military hardware including the ability to operate in real war and the lethal effect in different parts of the world and rapidly increase the preemptive attack capability of the island country by rapidly updating the weapon systems.

Japan's moves to export massive offensive lethal weapons are a grave challenge to global peace and security.

This will certainly cause a serious arms race among the countries in the surrounding region, escalate the geopolitical crisis and, furthermore, make the world situation more unstable.

It is the intention of Japan to turn its economy into the one based on huge munitions industry as soon as possible and accelerate the militarization by relying on it and, at the same time, create a favorable environment for reinvasion by creating an imbalance of strength in the region and the world.

Japan should clearly understand. The road of reinvasion, which the war criminal state is trying to open up as a new outlet for arms export, will lead it to the irreversible ruin. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.03.20.)