North Korea denounced Japan’s new security strategy as fundamentally
changing the regional security environment and warned it will
show how “wrong” and “dangerous” Japan’s choice is with
unspecified actions, official news agency KCNA reported.
A North Korean foreign ministry spokesperson made the remarks on Tuesday in a statement carried by KCNA, days after Japan unveiled its biggest military build-up since World War Two as regional tension and Russia’s Ukraine offensive stoke war fears.
“Japan is bringing a serious security crisis on the Korean
Peninsula and in the East Asia region by adopting a new security
strategy that effectively acknowledges its pre-emptive strike
capabilities against other countries,” the official said in the
statement.
The security environment in the region has “fundamentally
changed” due to Japan’s new policy, the official said,
denouncing the move as a violation of the UN Charter and a
“serious challenge” to international peace.
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“We make it clear once again that we have the right to take
bold and decisive military measures to protect our fundamental
rights … in response to the complicated regional security
environment,” the official said.
“Japan will soon learn with a shudder it has made a clearly
wrong and very dangerous choice.”
Tokyo’s sweeping, five-year plan, once unthinkable in pacifist Japan, will make the country the world’s third-biggest military spender after the United States and China, based on current budgets.
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