KCNA Commentary Condemns Japan's Nuclear Ambition, Calling a Planned Exception to the Non-Nuclear Principles a Prelude to Going Nuclear
The Korean Central News Agency published a commentary on November 15 condemning Japan's plan to formally specify an exception to its Three Non-Nuclear Principles in its security documents, calling the plan a prelude to the realisation of Japan's nuclear ambition.
The commentary called Japan a war criminal state and said its neo-militarist moves, aimed at disrupting the postwar international order and changing the regional balance of forces, are running in a dangerous direction. It was responding to the Japanese government's consideration of an exception to the principles as it revises its three key security documents, and to remarks by Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and others that possessing nuclear weapons and nuclear-powered submarines should not be ruled out.
The Three Non-Nuclear Principles are Japan's long-standing commitments not to possess, not to produce and not to permit the introduction of nuclear weapons. As GSM has previously reported, the Japanese government has been reported to be considering writing an exception into the new national security strategy, allowing nuclear weapons to be brought in during an emergency, a move that atomic-bomb survivors' groups and the mayor of Hiroshima have jointly opposed.
Pyongyang has spoken out repeatedly on Japan's security moves in recent days. On November 12, Kim Jong Sik, first vice department director of the Workers' Party Central Committee, condemned the AUKUS partnership and South Korean and Japanese moves to acquire nuclear-powered submarines, saying they would be deterred through action; an official of the foreign ministry's Institute for Japan Studies also criticised Japan's constitutional revision moves on November 10.
(Source: KCNA)
Source: KCNA
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