North Korea threatens to take a “resolute and decisive military step” against Japan while it slams Tokyo’s adoption of a national security strategy as an attempt to turn the country into “an offensive military giant.”
while it slammed Tokyo’s adoption of a national security strategy as an attempt to turn the country into “an offensive military giant.”
The statement accused the United States of supporting and instigating the Japanese military ambitions and undermining regional peace. It said that such U.S. moves are forcing North Korea to work hard to complete its plans to develop new strategic weapons to thwart enemy attempts to invade it. Like in some other Asian countries, anti-Japanese sentiments still run deep in North Korea because of Japan’s wartime atrocities. The Korean Peninsula was under Japanese colonial rule from 1910-1945 before it was split into a capitalist, U.S.-backed South Korea and a socialist, Soviet-supported North Korea at the end of the World War II.
On Tuesday, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno accused North Korea of posing “serious and pressing threats” to Japanese and regional security with its unprecedented pace of missile tests this year. He said Japan will cooperate with the United State and South Korea to achieve North Korea’s denuclearization.
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