Commentary on Dangerous Japan-ROK Military Nexus

Pyongyang, July 9 (KCNA) -- Kang Chol Su, section chief of the DPRK Institute of Enemy State Studies, on July 8 issued the following commentary titled "Dangerous military nexus courting self-destruction":

The military nexus between Japan, a war criminal state dashing toward a military giant, and the ROK has recently got more undisguised, further endangering the security situation in the Korean peninsula.

Early this year, the ROK air-force squadron got refueling from the Japan Air Self-Defence Force at a Japanese military base, which was something unprecedented in history. In June, a search and rescue drill between Japan and the ROK was resumed in nine years and the Japanese defense minister flew to Seoul to have a confab on the issue of security cooperation between the two countries.

It is by no means fortuitous that the word has spread in Japan and the ROK that the level of military cooperation between Japan and the ROK has jumped one step.

What should not be overlooked is that the security cooperation between Japan and the ROK is directed to concluding the "logistic support agreement" which provides each other with munitions including ammunition in contingency.

Japanese media reported that the Japan-ROK security policy council held in May was aimed at concrete successes for the conclusion of the "logistic support agreement" between the two sides, and the chief executive of the ROK openly talked about the need to conclude the "logistic support agreement" with Japan.

The international community has already sounded a note of warning against the nature and danger of the conclusion of the "logistic support agreement" between Japan and the ROK that it is the final stage of the establishment of military alliances and the substantial integration of military systems.

The U.S. ambition for hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region has become more undisguised and the confrontation maniacs of the ROK are hell-bent on arms buildup, modernization of armed forces and war drills for aggression against the DPRK, unhesitatingly spitting out the provocative remarks that the "DPRK regime and the Korean People's Army are their enemy". Timed to coincide with such moves, Japan and the ROK are strengthening the military nexus. Their purpose is as clear as noonday.

Japan's security cooperation is precisely a confrontation cooperation targeting the DPRK and part of the establishment of the "triangular cooperation system over the nuclear issue" to militarily contain neighboring countries by taking advantage of the U.S. strategy for hegemony.

It is also revealed in the fact that Japan and the ROK are talking about the "importance of the U.S.-Japan-ROK cooperation", deploying long-range missiles far beyond their defense sphere and attempting to possess nuclear-powered submarines.

The reality goes to prove once again that the DPRK's continuous development of nuclear force and thorough exercise of its position as a nuclear weapons state are the only way to actively cope with the acute and unpredictably changing international situation and defend peace and security in the Korean peninsula and the region.

No matter what military alliance Japan and the ROK may conclude, there will never be a change in the absolute mechanical structure of no retreat built in the Korean peninsula by the strongest nuclear weapons state.

The reckless military nexus of the enemy states under the eyes of the nuclear weapons state is nothing but a foolish act of courting self-destruction. -0-