KCNA Condemns Japan's Overseas Expansion Moves

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KCNA Condemns Japan's Overseas Expansion Moves

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Japan has accelerated its pace for overseas expansion by attempting to dispatch troops of its Self-Defense Forces to Iraq, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a commentary released on Wednesday.

Japan's House of Representatives approved a bill last Friday on sending troops to Iraq to provide humanitarian assistance and logistic support for US-led forces.

Under the bill, the Self-Defense Forces are allowed to carry out activities only n areas where no combat operations are or will be taking place. They are not allowed to provide any ammunition orother weapons and to refuel or maintain aircraft for combat operations.

"The adoption of a bill on dispatching heavily armed Ground, Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces at the same time to Iraq for the first time in the history of its overseas dispatch shows well to what a dangerous phase Japan has gone in its moves for its troops' overseas dispatch," the commentary said.

This provided the Japanese reactionaries with a permanent legalguarantee for dispatching the Self-Defense Forces to any combat areas in the world and launching expansion overseas so as to realize their dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere," it stressed.

The Japanese reactionaries have become more undisguised in their moves to provide a legislation for overseas aggression sincethe beginning of the new century, including the adoption of "law on special measure on terrorism," thus legalizing the Self-Defense Forces' participation in any war of overseas aggression, the commentary said.

The Japanese reactionaries' dangerous moves for overseas expansion are strongly condemned by the Korean and other Asian people, the commentary added.

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