KCNA Commentary Assails Japan's Ambition for Reinvasion

Pyongyang, October 8 (KCNA) -- Japan's preoccupation with aggression runs counter to mankind desirous of peace and stability.

Shortly ago, Japan insisted obstinately on sending a warship of its maritime "Self-Defense Force" with the "flag of rising sun shedding rays" to Jeju Island.

In the last century, the Japanese imperialists hanged the "flag of rising sun shedding rays" on the bayonet as a symbol of the "Yamato-Tamashi" in their aggression of Asian countries, advocating the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere".

The world people set themselves against Japan's assertion of use of the flag, trembling with anger at it.

Official persons of Japan such as the minister of Defense claim that the flag of the SDF warship showing the nationality is the icon of national sovereignty and the call for banning the use of the "flag of rising sun shedding rays" is an abnormal and rude action.

Japan's disgraceful behavior is an unpardonable insult and mockery of the Korean nation and international community aspiring after peace at a time when the promise and practical measures of the Korean nation to turn the Korean Peninsula into the land of peace are hailed and supported by the world people.

The history of aggression of Japan that committed indelible crimes against the Korean nation still goes on and Japan is adding crimes to it.

Far from making an apology and reflecting on its past crimes of aggression, Japan tries to set foot in this land with the blood-stained flag of the Imperial Japanese Army again, not content with claim to "dominium" over the inviolable land of Korea.

Japan is so shameless to demonstrate that it does not give up the old dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" as a war-capable state.

The wild ambition of Japan, the sworn enemy of the Korean nation, to harass peace can never be allowed.

Japan's criminal war flag will not be hoisted on the land of Korea at all.

All Koreans should come out as one in the struggle against the daily-growing ambition of the Japanese reactionaries to turn Japan into a military giant and their reinvasion moves. -0-