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 with ‘threat from the neighboring countries’” on April 14.

The press statement is as follows:

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

I do not care whether Japan announced the diplomatic blue book or not, but I can never overlook the fact that it called into question the DPRK’s exercise of right to legitimate self-defence, in an absurd attempt to shake 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 Japan’s deep-rooted hostility and confrontational intention toward the DPRK.

In the diplomatic blue book, Japan talked about the “international order based on rules” and “governing by law”, but refused to mention its master’s top-class rogue act of unhesitatingly resorting to aggression and use of armed forces against sovereign states to hold its 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-defence 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 a tricky and 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 “threat from the neighboring countries” as an excuse.