Pyongyang, April 15 (KCNA) -- The policy section chief of the Institute for Japan Studies under the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK issued a press statement titled "Japan's diplomatic blue book is a tricky document to beautify its extreme militarist moves by the 'threat from the neighboring countries'" on April 14.

The press statement is as follows:

Shortly ago, Japan announced the "2026 diplomatic blue book" which was woven with conventional gangster-like logic and absurdity.

I do not care whether Japan announced the diplomatic blue book or not, but I can not overlook its move to say this or that about the DPRK's exercise of its right to legitimate self-defence, while dreaming of shaking the position of a nuclear weapons state specified in the Constitution of the DPRK.

Japan termed the DPRK's measures for bolstering up its defence capabilities, which belong to the right to self-defence, "grave and urgent threat" and "clear and serious challenge" and made an anachronistic and evasive assertion like "complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement" and "complete implementation of the resolution of the UN Security Council".

This is a grave provocation encroaching upon the sovereign rights, security interests and development rights of our sacred state and, at the same time, it fully reveals its deep-rooted hostility and confrontational intention to the DPRK.

In the diplomatic blue book, Japan talked about the "international order based on rules" and "governing by law", but refused to talk to its master's top-class rogue act of unhesitatingly resorting to aggression and use of armed forces against sovereign states, aiming at unilateral hegemony.

Japan, a vassal state of the U.S., which has neither clear political view nor independence, is making desperate efforts to deny the position of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state. This is impudent and ridiculous act not quite fit for it.

Whenever an opportunity presents itself, Japan is letting loose rhetoric about the exercise of the right to self-defense by neighboring countries. Such move is aimed at covering up its criminal nature of shaking the keynote of security in the region while pursuing legal and institutional completion as a war state and expansion of its aggressive attack capability.

Japan's diplomatic blue book is the tricky document and the confrontation document from A to Z to beautify the militarist moves of the Japanese authorities who are dreaming of bringing about the second imperial era and rushing headlong into its realization with the "threat from the neighboring countries" as an excuse. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.04.15.)