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Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- The economic and fiscal policy minister said monday the right to collective self-defense is inherent to a country and Japan's war-renouncing constitution should be revised. In this regard, Kyodo said, "it is rare for a serving cabinet member to comment on revising the constitution." Such happening in Japan is arousing deep apprehension among the world public as it means that the Japanese militarist and ultra-nationalist forces' moves for overseas military aggression have entered the phase of being legalized and adopted as a policy through a constitutional revision. In 1946 when a discussion was made on a new constitution at the Japanese diet, the then prime minister Yoshida expressed opposition to war and the right of belligerency based on the "right to self-defense", confessing that many recent wars including the Sino-Japan War and the Pacific War were carried out under the cloak of the right to self-defense. As Yoshida admitted, the "right to collective self-defense" was intended to launch an overseas aggression. That was why Japan's "peace constitution" after the Pacific War codified the renunciation of the right of belligerency based on the "right to self-defense". However, Japan, which remains listed as an "enemy state" by the UN charter, is now letting its cabinet members call for the legalization of the war doctrine, claiming the face and right of "normal state" which is recognized by nobody. If Japan truly wants to be recognized by the world community as a normal state, it should make an honest repentance and apology for the crimes committed in the last century, far from calling for the aggressive "right to collective self-defense". . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
