Pyongyang, July 16 (KCNA) -- Public demand for revision of the Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement is now mounting in Japan.
Recently, the Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun carried an editorial, "It is 60 years since effectuation of Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement and it is high time for Japan to start negotiating for its revision," which commented on the inequitable agreement granting GIs in Japan many privileges.
The paper said that Japan's burden has snowballed to the extent that it is now too huge to accept, adding that the U.S. forces, whose mission is to defend Japan, have used its bases in Japan as strategic ones for putting the Indo-Pacific region under its control.
It also said that the bases with extraterritorial privileges pose a serious threat to the life, stability and rights of the local people.
39 prefecture governors that account for over 80 percent of all governors in Japan demand overall reexamination of the agreement and 25 of them call for the application of Japanese laws to GIs in Japan.
This is an eruption of disillusionment with the authorities who are always at the U.S. beck and call in disregard of the existence, human rights and interests of the people. It is also the mindset of the public in Japan worrying over the future of the country.
The Japanese people want to live peacefully without submitting to the foreign forces bringing misfortune and suffering to them.
However, the Japanese authorities have turned the Japanese archipelago into an outsiders' huge base for aggression characterized by rampant crimes of GIs.
This is aimed to realize at any cost the wild ambition for reinvading Korea.
When a huge amount of toxic materials leaked from a U.S. base in Futenma in April this year, causing a public uproar across Japan, the Japanese reactionaries glossed over the case at the end of a deceptive investigation.
Japan had no other choice but to negotiate the deployment of medium-range missiles in a U.S. base in Japan with its American master recently though it knew that it would face strong opposition and military counteractions by neighboring countries for doing so.
The U.S. pressurizes Japan into bearing more expense for the upkeep of the U.S. forces in Japan, opening the farm products market, purchasing its weapons, etc. The U.S. wants more and more from Japan and Japan has met only humiliation, insult and maltreatment for its decades-long sycophancy toward U.S.
It served Japan right.
If the Japanese reactionaries persist in sycophancy toward the U.S., taking no heed of the international community's derision, condemnation and warning, they will always remain a poor stooge of the U.S., making the future of Japan gloomy. -0-
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