Japan policy basis of instability in Northeast Asia - KCNA

    PYONGYANG, August 12 (Itar-Tass) - North Korea's Korean Central News
Agency (KCNA) on Friday called "an aggressive document" the "white paper"
on defence, containing attacks on the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea (DPRK) that has been published in Japan.
    The news agency noted that the concern about the nuclear facilities
and DPRK missiles expressed in the document is "an unpardonable
provocation, confirming the intention to Tokyo to continue its hostile
policy towards Pyongyang."
    KCNA stressed that the DPRK "strengthens its defence to protect the
sovereignty, security and its territorial integrity." "Nuclear weapons and
missiles of the Republic do not pose any threat to Japan," the agency said.
    It is highlighted in the KCNA report that Tokyo is trying under the
guise of the "false propaganda campaign to deploy in Japan a missile
defence system, transform the country into a military giant and pave the
way for a new invasion of Korea." At present, Japan's policy "is the main
reason for the lack of stability in Northeast Asia," KCNA said.
    The Japanese reactionaries in the "white paper on defence" for 2011
released recently expressed "concern" about nukes and missiles of the
DPRK, talking about their issues. This is another unpardonable provocation
to the DPRK as it is revelation of their persistent hostility towards it.
The DPRK's bolstering of its defence capability is entirely aimed at
protecting its sovereignty, security and territorial integrity. Its nukes
and missiles, therefore, can never be threats to Japan, KCNA reported.
    This notwithstanding, the Japanese reactionaries again pulled up the
DPRK over the nuclear and missile issues pertaining to its right to
self-defence. Lurking behind this is their wild ambition to cover up the
true colours of their nuclear issue and the moves to establish the missile
defence system in the eyes of the international community under its
pretence and push forward the scenario for turning Japan into a military
giant behind the scene and thus trump up an excuse for staging a comeback
to Korea and the rest of Northeast Asia, the agency said.
    As widely known to the world, Japan had already researched and
developed nuclear technology and facilities and has a stockpile of
plutonium enough to produce thousands of nukes. It is stepping up the
moves to establish the MD with the US in real earnest to launch
pre-emptive nuclear attack, according to KCNA.
    It said the Japan "Self-Defence Forces" have emerged forces for
aggression. Institutional, spiritual and material preparations have been
rounded off to start reinvasion of Asia. What remains to be done by Japan
at present is just to create an opportunity for reinvasion. To this end,
the Japanese reactionaries vociferously claim that territories of
neighbouring countries belong to their territory without any ground, while
noisily advocating the theory of "threats" to them. It is part of this
campaign that in the 2011 white paper they described Tok Islets, part of
the inviolable territory of Korea, as Japan's territory and vociferated
about "maritime threat" from China.
    Reality goes to clearly prove that the white paper is nothing but a
document for aggression and war as it is designed to realize their
ambition for reinvasion to all intents and purposes. It is absurd and
preposterous for the war criminal Japan to release hundreds of page-long
war document every year, far from redeeming its past crimes committed
against Korea and other neighbouring countries. Japan has become the root
cause of rendering the situation in Northeast Asia unstable and
threatening and disturbing its peace and security, KCNA said.
    According to the agency, the regional situation gets tenser and the
danger of war increases due to Japan's moves to grab others' territories
and launch reinvasion. The peaceful development of the neighbouring
countries is, consequently, jeopardized. The Japanese reactionaries should
halt their futile actions, cogitating about the grave consequences to be
entailed by the above-said reckless moves.
    The agency also criticized the Japanese Ministry of Defence, which
calls the Tokto (Dokdo) Islands Japanese in the "white paper" it
published. According to KCNA, these actions are "violating the sovereignty
of the entire Korean nation." Tokto Islands (in Japanese - Takeshima,
according to international classification - Liancourt) - is a group of
small islands with a total area of 0.188 square kilometres, located in the
west of the Sea of Japan (East Sea). These uninhabited rocky territories
became the subject of international dispute since 1945, when Korea was
liberated by the Soviet Army from Japanese colonial rule. Now the island
is controlled by the armed forces of the Republic of Korea, which holds a
small garrison there. Tokyo has officially said that South Korea
"illegally occupied" these territories included in the Japanese empire in
1905. Pyongyang and Seoul, in turn, claim that they have historically
belonged to the Korean state.
    Although claimed by both Korea and Japan, Liancourt Rocks are
currently administered by the Republic of Korea. Both nations' claims
extend back at least several hundred years. Significant arguments supported by a variety of historical evidence have been presented by both
parties, which have been challenged by counter-arguments with varying
degrees of success. North Korea supports South Korea's claim.