Japan's Reinvasion Ambition May Lead It to Ruin: KCNA Commentary

Pyongyang, December 20 (KCNA) -- Japan Prime Minister Abe at the recent budget committee of the House of Councilors voiced his opinion to refer the existence of "Self-defence Forces" to article 9 of constitution and tolerate the exercise of the right to "collective self-defence".

This full-fledged revelation of the Japanese reactionaries to revive militarism constitutes a serious threat to the peace in the region and the rest of the world.

The military fanatics' ambition for reinvasion has now reached the phase which can no longer be overlooked.

Abe who set it as a goal to make Japan a "country capable of fighting a war" away from the postwar system which binds the country, has gone crafty enough to use such leverage as the exercise of the "right to collective self-defence".

In 2013 Japan adopted "state security strategy" as the first thing in Japan's political history and called for making "more active contribution" to peace and stability of the international community based on positive pacifism, thereby shaping a legal framework for theoretically supporting the exercise of the "right to collective self-defence".

In April 2015, it revised the "U.S.-Japan defence cooperation guidelines" which designated the distribution of cooperation and roles concerning the operation, information and logistic support for the U.S. forces and "Self-defence Forces" in case of emergency after the lapse of 18 years, thereby expanding the scope of overseas military operation of the SDF to all directions.

In September 2015 Japan packaged eleven security bills for legally supporting the "U.S.-Japan defence cooperation guidelines" to adopt a "law on security" and put it into official effect from March 29, 2016.

Accordingly the SDF was invested with the right to conduct military operational duty in any area of the world under the pretext of the exercise of "right to collective self-defence".

What left to be done by the Japanese reactionary ruling forces who are pursuing overseas aggression now is to retrogressively revise the "pacifist constitution" and secure "validity" and "legitimacy" of the moves for becoming a military giant and launching overseas aggression.

A foreign media expressed concerns long ago that "the issue of collective self-defence is just an appetizer for the main course of constitutional revision for Abe".

At an event marking the 70th anniversary of the enforcement of constitution of Japan Abe said "the present constitution has to be modified as the security environment has undergone a change due to the north's nuclear and missile development". It is clear that this was aimed to create a pretext for constitutional revision and create an excuse for overseas advance of the SDF.

The wild act of the Japanese right-wing forces led by Abe is leading the Japanese archipelago to the danger line.

To look back on history, all Japan's aggression attempts at Korean peninsula and the Asian continent ended in bitter defeat and left wound that is hardly healable even to the Japanese people.

Japan has to draw a serious lesson from its past history of aggression.

If the present ruling quarters of Japan follow in the footsteps of the predecessors, not waking up from the old dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere", they will only face final ruin. -0-