DPRK Raps US-Japan Military IntegrationThe United States and Japan are tightening their ties in a bid to round off their military integration, said the official Korean Central News Agency in a commentary Wednesday.In a recent move, Washington called for reviving Article 9 of Japan's Constitution, asserting that Japan has reason enough to develop its deterrent and defense capabilities to counter missiles of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and other countries. Meanwhile, the Japan-based U.S. forces stressed the need to strengthen bilateral military cooperation based on the "U.S.-Japan guidelines for military cooperation," said the commentary. The United States is keen to cement its military ties and conspiracy and round off its military integration with Japan by instigating the Japanese militarists, the commentary pointed out. It is obvious that the revision of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, which "bans the exercise of the right to collective self-defense," will enable Japan to be always preoccupied by revanchism and militarism even after Japan's defeat in the war, said the article. Such a move will also enable Japan to rapidly step-up its rearmament and propel the moves to turn Japan into a military power, and it will also provide a legal guarantee for their legitimate overseas aggression, the commentary said. The United States seeks to establish the missile defense system (NMD) at any cost for the execution of its world strategy and put forward Japan seized by militarism as a shock brigade to this end, it said. It urged the United States and Japan to immediately stop their military integration "which pushes the regional situation to a grave phase." |
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