KCNA Commentary Hits Out at Japan's Military Moves

Pyongyang, November   10 (KCNA)   -- Intensified   overseas advance   of Japan’s military is drawing serious concern of the international community.

The Japan Ministry of Defense recently made a formal announcement that it would dispatch its Ground "Self-Defense Force" to Vietnam for the first time in Asia.

This means the expansion of the sphere of SDF overseas military operation to Asia. The sphere was confined to Africa, where SDF troops were deployed under the pretext of "UN peace-keeping activities."

On November 5 SDF kicked off the largest-ever joint military drills in league with the U.S. and Canada under the pretence of "stability of the India-Pacific region." Commenting on it, Reuters reported on Nov.  3 that  Japan  has  buckled  down  to military buildup, being concerned about the security of Asia and it dispatched its biggest warship Kaga to  various countries in the India-Pacific  region including Philippines, Sri Lanka, India and Singapore within  two months this year. Observers appreciated that the joint military drills are targeted at China bolstering its military force in the South China Sea, the British news agency added.

The aim sought by Japan in intensifying military drills with various countries in an all-round way outside its archipelago is as clear as noonday. It is to materialize the wild dream for overseas expansion by making SDF’s military operation easier across the world and perfecting the actual war capability of SDF.

The Japanese reactionaries, being crazy about the revanchist ambition, have never dropped the wild dream for overseas expansion. With the modification of the "Japan-U.S.  Defense Cooperation  Guidelines" and  the adoption of  the  "security law"  in recent  years, Japan  expanded the  SDF's operational sphere  confined to  its  vicinity to  cover  the whole  world.  It also  made  it possible  to exercise  the  "right  to  collective  self-defense"  under  the  pretext  of  military  aids  to "allies."

SDF has cunningly paved  its path for overseas expansion  bit by bit under the  pretext of "keeping  peace" and  "combating terrorism." It  has reached  the phase  of beating  its military drums across the world, hyping "proactive pacifism."

Now that  politicians  of Japan  are hurrying  to revise  the constitution  to specify  the existence of the  SDF in the constitution in the  wake of Prime Minister  Abe's reelection as president of the Liberal Democratic Party, it is  clear that Japan is openly pursuing the overseas advance of its military.

Japan  is  a   country  which  inflicted  untold   disasters  upon  the   peoples  of  Asian countries in the past century. It is just a defeated nation which is banned from exercising the right of belligerency and the rights to participate in a war and having a regular army.

Its  military's  projected  overseas  advance  just  means  a  war  of  aggression  and  such attempt is definitely a crime. The Japanese  reactionaries should be  aware that their  desperate military  moves will only  make Japan  further  isolated  and  rejected by  the  peoples  of the  region  and  the international community.

Revival of militarism will bring miserable ruin to Japan.