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Hans India
2 days ago
- Politics
- Hans India
North Korea slams Japan for labelling Pyongyang 'urgent threat' in defence paper
North Korea on Friday lambasted Japan for describing it as an "urgent threat" in this year's defence white paper, calling it "a war scenario" for aggression and accusing Tokyo of trying to cover up its own moves to become a "military giant." The Institute for Japan Studies under North Korea's foreign ministry issued the criticism in a press statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) three days after Japan released this year's defence white paper. The paper labelled North Korea, along with Russia and China, as a "grave and urgent threat" to Japan, expressing "serious concerns" over the possibility of North Korea receiving nuclear and missile technologies from Russia in return for military cooperation. The North Korean statement accused Japan of being obsessed with its ambitions for reinvasion and preoccupied with securing preemptive strike capacities, citing its development of domestically produced long-range missiles and the purchase of similar weapons from abroad in recent years. The statement also labeled the white paper as "a war scenario for realizing its ambition for reinvasion," warning that Japan's moves to turn itself into a military giant seriously threaten regional peace and security and can never be tolerated, Yonhap news agency reported. "This is nothing but shameless sophism to cover up the threatening entity of Japan which is escalating the regional situation in a gradual way and justify its reckless moves to turn itself into a military giant, leaving the whole area of the archipelago as a military outpost and logistic base for realising the US hegemony-oriented strategy in the Indo-Pacific," the statement noted. It said Japan is now "working hard to build the capability for carrying out war of aggression such as the capability for long-range strike and trans-domain operation," adding that this is not "merely a temporary countermeasure, but a military policy (re)orientation" away from its earlier stance as a "peace state." "The present development clearly proves once again that the efforts of (North Korea) to bolster up its nuclear war deterrence serve as an indispensable contribution to strongly suppressing the provocations of the US and its allies," the statement also noted. In a separate commentary, the KCNA also took a swipe at Japan's joint project with the United Kingdom and Italy to develop next-generation fighter jets, calling it an attempt to restore Japan's "war alliance." "Japan's military modernisation plot is rooted in an attempt to revive its past imperialism by restoring its 'war alliance,'" the KCNA said, claiming the joint fighter jet project paves the way for launching a war of aggression.
Straits Times
2 days ago
- Business
- Straits Times
North Korea says Japan seeking to be a ‘military giant'
Find out what's new on ST website and app. Japan is in a multi-year process of increasing its defence spending, as many countries are doing under pressure from the United States. SEOUL - A new Japanese defence policy white paper showed the country was seeking to be a major military power, North Korean state media reported a foreign ministry official as saying on July 18, who justified Pyongyang's nuclear programme on that basis. The policy section chief of the Institute for Japan Studies under the foreign ministry described the Japanese defence white paper, approved this week, as 'a war scenario for realising its ambition for reinvasion from A to Z', the Korean Central News Agency said. The white paper was approved by the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on July 15. It argued, among other things, that China's intensifying military activities could seriously impact Japanese security, citing the first confirmed incursion by a Chinese military aircraft into its airspace. It also said North Korea's activities pose a 'more grave and imminent threat to Japan's national security than ever before'. Japan is in a multi-year process of increasing its defence spending, as many countries are doing under pressure from the United States, as Mr Donald Trump governs for a second time with a focus on more-burden sharing on defence. Japan is bolstering its military ties with Washington – and other regional US allies – to make US and Japanese forces nimbler in response to threats such as a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Top stories Swipe. Select. Stay informed. Singapore Driverless bus in Sentosa gets green light to run without safety officer in first for S'pore Asia Malaysia's King appoints Wan Ahmad Farid as new Chief Justice World Trump diagnosed with vein condition causing leg swelling, White House says Opinion Is your child getting drawn to drugs? Don't look away and don't give up World US strikes destroyed only one of three Iranian nuclear sites, says new report Business 5 things to know about Kuok Hui Kwong, tycoon Robert Kuok's daughter and Shangri-La Asia head honcho Asia Air India probe into Boeing 787 fuel control switches finds no issues Singapore Sex first, then you can sell my flat: Women property agents fend off indecent proposals and harassment The Japan studies department of the North Korean foreign ministry said Japan was 'escalating the regional situation in a gradual way (to) justify its reckless moves to turn itself into a military giant', KCNA reported. Japan's military activities show that North Korea's efforts to build up its nuclear arsenal 'serve as an indispensable contribution to strongly suppressing the provocations of the US and its allies', the agency reported. AFP
