Dangerous U.S.-Japan military nexus under fire Pyongyang, March 15 (KCNA) -- The new U.S. administration is getting feverish in its efforts to tighten its military alliance with Japan. The U.S.-Japan military nexus is aimed to realize their ambition to invade the DPRK at any cost. At the request of the United States the Japan Defence Agency recently decided to set up a working-level institution aimed to comprehensively discuss security policies, formation of armed forces, etc. of the two countries and on this basis, a group in each service of the "self-defence forces." The agency is contemplating closer "technical cooperation" with the united states related to the development of patrol plane of the next generation. The U.S. imperialists are hard at work to increase the capacity to attack the DPRK in case of "emergency" on the Korean peninsula and smoothly carry out the wartime U.S.-Japan joint operation with the help from Japan. At "security" talks held in New York in September last year, the U.S. and Japanese military and diplomatic authorities agreed to go ahead with joint technological researches into the "Theatre Missile Defence System," asserting that "the situation remains uncertain and instability persists in the Asia-Pacific." They also agreed to establish a mechanism made up of four committees and groups to coordinate joint military operations in "emergencies" in areas surrounding Japan. The administration singled out closer military alliance with Japan as a main link in the chain of the moves to carry out the strategy to stifle the DPRK and is now moving in this direction. But the international community is opposed to the U.S.-Japan military nexus, terming it a development detrimental to the detente on the Korean peninsula. It is foolish and rash for the U.S. to try to stifle the DPRK through the military tie-up with Japan. The tightened U.S.-Japan military nexus will only compel the Korean people to heighten revolutionary vigilance and increase the DPRK's self-reliant defence capability.
