North Korea on Tuesday threatened to take “bold and decisive military steps” against Japan as it criticized Tokyo’s adoption of a national security strategy as an attempt to turn the country into an aggressive military power. North Korea’s statement comes four days after Japan announced a security strategy that reiterates its determination to have a “retaliation” capability and double its military spending to gain a more aggressive position against threats from China and North Korea. It reflects.
The North’s foreign ministry said in a statement that Japan’s push to acquire the retaliatory strike capability had nothing to do with self-defense, but was “a pre-emptive strike capability to launch attacks on other countries’ territories”. There is a clear attempt to achieve.
An unnamed ministry spokesman said in a statement, “Japan’s senseless attempt to appease its black-hearted greed – building up its military offensive capability under the pretext of legitimate exercise of self-defense rights – is justified and cannot be tolerated.” carried out by state media.
Korea accuses US of promoting Japanese military
The statement accused the United States of supporting and promoting Japanese military ambitions and of undermining regional peace. It said such alleged US moves are forcing North Korea to work harder to fulfill its plans to develop new strategic weapons to thwart enemy attempts to attack North Korea.
The statement said North Korea wanted to ensure that it could take “bold and decisive military steps” to defend its sovereignty and national interests in view of the complexity of regional security caused by Japanese security strategy.
“Our country will continue to take action to show how concerned and outraged we are by Japan’s unjustified, greedy effort,” the statement said.
Anti-Japanese sentiment still runs deep in North Korea
Like some other Asian countries, anti-Japanese sentiment is still strong in North Korea because of Japan’s wartime atrocities. The Korean Peninsula was under Japanese colonial rule from 1910–1945, before being divided into a capitalist, US-backed South Korea and a socialist, Soviet-backed North Korea in 1945 at the end of World War II.
North Korea’s state media regularly criticizes Japanese colonial wrongdoings. Its statement Tuesday also said Japan inflicted “immeasurable sorrow and suffering on the Korean people” during colonial rule.
North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear-tipped missiles is a major security concern for Japan as they are capable of reaching Japan as well as South Korea and the mainland US. Alerts and stopping of trains.
The Japanese strategy names China as the “biggest strategic challenge” – ahead of North Korea and Russia – to Japan’s efforts to ensure peace, security and stability.