KCNA Commentary on Japan's Rubbish about "Threat from Surrounding Countries"

Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- The Japanese authorities blustered that they would seek the heated-up discussion for the reexamination of the "defense guidelines" from the beginning of 2018, under the pretext of "threat from surrounding countries". Prime Minister Abe and Defense Minister Onodera called for "reexamining the guidelines so that they can provide defence capabilities in the true sense of words", stressing that "Korea is pushing forward nuclear and missile development, China is beefing up military capabilities and Russia is busy in its activities in the northern areas". Their intention is to reexamine and modify the defense guidelines to be the one of "defending Japanese nationals" from "threats" from the DPRK, China and Russia. So inveterate is the crafty traits peculiar to the island nation. It is Japan's bad habit to find fault with others and seek its own interests as unanimously commented by the international community. Japan is so shameless as to claim that its past blood-stained aggression, censured by humankind, was to "liberate Asia from Western European imperialists". The ultimate purpose sought by Japan is to turn itself into a "normal state" capable of fighting a war from a "special country" which is disallowed to have the right to possess military force, to say nothing of the belligerent right, as a war defeated nation and a war criminal state. It is trumpeting about "threat from surrounding countries" as a "legitimate pretext" for realizing this. The rhetoric about "threat from surrounding areas" oft-repeated by Japan is little short of a prelude to an reinvasion aimed to paint their criminal nature of rushing headlong into turning the country into a military giant as "legitimate" and openly come out for overseas expansion. The international community is required to approach with vigilance the moves of Japan whetting the sword of reinvasion by faulting others. -0-