Kim Yo-jong, Department Head of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issues a statement(Pyongyang, August 5, Korean Central News Agency)
<The full text of the statement released on the 5th by Kim Yo- jong, Department Head of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, titled "Japan's Possession of Preemptive Attack Capability is a Serious Threat to International Peace and Stability," is as follows.Riding the sharp and volatile trends of the current international situation, where global geopolitical conflicts and bloc confrontations are intensifying, Japan, a former war criminal nation, is accelerating its transformation into a war state.
A few days ago, Japan carried out a test launch of a Tomahawk long-range cruise missile mounted on the Aegis destroyer "Jōkai" of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force in the Pacific Ocean.
Prior to this, in May, it participated in a U.S.-led joint military exercise off the northern coast of Luzon Island in the Philippines and carried out an offensive missile launch from outside its territory for the first time since its defeat.
These military moves demonstrate that Japan’s maneuvers, which formalized the possession of preemptive strike capabilities through the revision of the “National Security Strategy” at the end of 2022 in violation of international law and its own constitution which prohibit the possession of military power, the right to participate in war, and the right to wage war, are entering the stage of actual criminal activity.
Japan opened the curtain on acquiring preemptive strike capabilities by deploying the Type 12 ground-to-sea guided missile, with a range extended to approximately 1,000 km, and the Type 25 high-velocity glide bomb, which flies at supersonic speeds at high altitudes, to Ground Self-Defense Force bases in Kumamoto and Shizuoka prefectures last March.
Recently, launchers for Type 12 surface-to-sea guided missiles and unmanned reconnaissance aircraft for target position determination have been deployed to island areas in the Pacific, and the delivery of cruise missiles to be mounted on the Air Self-Defense Force’s F-35A fighter jets is being accelerated, and under the pretext of the so-called “strengthening of defense systems in the Pacific,” the development and introduction of unmanned submarines equipped with anti-ship attack c
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