▲ North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs


North Korea protested against Japan's adoption of a security strategy that secures the ability to counterattack enemy bases, defining it as "officializing an aggression route."



In a spokesperson's statement released by the Korean Central News Agency, North Korea's Foreign Ministry said, "Japan's adoption of a new security strategy that officially formalizes possession of preemptive strike capabilities against other countries has created a grave security crisis on the Korean Peninsula and East Asia. there is," he said.



The Ministry of Foreign Affairs insisted that "the so-called 'counterattack capability' claimed by Japan has nothing to do with the sovereign state's legitimate right to self-defence, and is a preemptive strike capability to thoroughly attack the territory of another country."



"Japan's formulation of a new aggression route has fundamentally changed the security environment in East Asia," he said.



"We will continue to demonstrate through practical actions how much the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is concerned and displeased with Japan's unreasonable and ambitious attempts to realize its ambitions," the ministry said.



He warned, "Japan will realize for itself that it has made the wrong and too risky choice through the shuddering shudder that it will feel in the near future."



In addition, "North Korea strictly criticizes and condemns the negative actions taken by Japan, and prepares for the complexity of the regional security environment resulting from it, complete national sovereignty and territorial integrity,



The Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized, "Japan's foolish act of trying to fill the black stomach of re-invasion military power by using our state's legitimate exercise of self-defence as an excuse can never be justified and cannot be tolerated."



Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministry also turned its arrow against the United States, using it as an excuse to justify efforts to strengthen national defense.



The Ministry of Foreign Affairs argued that the United States is struggling to unconditionally complete the top five tasks in the field of strategic weapons, saying that the United States is covering up and encouraging "Japan's treasury boots and re-invasion attempts" and that they are doing their own self-committee events. .



On the 16th, Japan adopted revisions to three major security documents, including the National Security Strategy, which stipulates the ability to counterattack enemy missile bases.



(Photo = Courtesy of the Korean Central News Agency, Yonhap News)