Through the'White Paper on Defense' published by the Japanese government this year, the claim to deter Dokdo was held for 16 years.

Japan also emphasized the North Korean nuclear threat, saying that North Korea would already have the ability to attack Japan with nuclear weapons.

The Japanese government adopted the defense white paper ``Japan Defense'' in 2020 at the State Council held by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

While explaining the surrounding security environment in this year's white paper, Japan repeatedly compelled the claim that "the territorial problems of Japan's own territories, Northern Territory, and Dokdo's Japanese notation "Takeshima" remain unresolved."

It has been 16 years since 2005 that Japan began to provocate in the defense white paper specifying Korea's sovereignty over Dokdo.

Japan also maintained its position last year on the North Korean nuclear issue, which seems to have realized the miniaturization and warheadization of nuclear weapons.

At the same time, it appears to have the ability to attack Japan by mounting it on a ballistic missile that has advanced nuclear weapons.

In this regard, a defense official responsible for writing the white paper insisted that the North Korean military trend reflects the fact that North Korea's military trend is a serious and desperate threat to Japan's safety, such as North Korea's recent repeated launch of ballistic missile tests. .

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