'Japanese Militarists' Prepare for Reinvasion of Korea
Is Japan preparing to repeat its previous invasions of Korea?
According to this commentary from North Korea's state-run Korean Central News
Agency, recent comments by Japan's prime minister and Tokyo's mollification of
its 'American Masters' show that it is preparing the ground for what used to be
called the 'Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere.'
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan: After his recent comments regarding tensions between the two Koreas, North Korean has resumed its traditional accusations that Tokyo seeks to reprose its disasterous tendency to invade other Asian nations during and before World War II.
Pyongyang:
As a "precaution," Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has called for
"dispatching
the 'Self-Defense forces' (SDF) to the Korean Peninsula." Under the
pretense of “protecting Japanese,” he has called for developing "guidelines"
for doing so. This brings into bold relief the scenario imagined by Japanese
authorities for staging a return to Korea.
Kan’s
reckless remarks about “protecting Japanese” are reminiscent of statements
about the “protection of Japanese residents,” that the Japanese imperialists
have always used before igniting wars of aggression in previous centuries.
When
the Kapo Peasant War broke
out in 1894, Japan hurled a 10,000-strong ground and naval force into Korea
under the pretext of “protecting” Japanese residents, all in a bid to ignite
the 1894-1895
Sino-Japanese War. Early in the 20th century under the same pretence, they
sent aggressor troops into Korea, imposing military occupation and establishing a
colonial rule.
Whenever
Japan perpetrated monstrous massacres, they use the pretext of “protecting
Japanese residents” and “purging” anti-Japanese forces, including the great
“punitive operation” in Jiandao
and the “punitive operation” in east
Manchuria.
Again,
it was the pretext of “protecting Japanese residents” enforced by the Japanese
imperialists that brought such decline to Korea, where at least 8.4 million people
were abducted as slave labor, and more than one million were killed.
Historical
fact proves that the “protection of Japanese residents” touted by Japan is a
prelude to aggression, war and plunder. Its intention is to hurl the "Self
Defense Force" into Korea under the pretence of “protecting Japanese
residents” and stage a comeback to power. Japan wants to realize its ancient
dream of “The
Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere,” which it failed to impose in the
last century.
Japan
has already deployed the main contingent of its Self Defense Force in its
western region, close to the Korean Peninsula. It has passed war legislation,
including the “law on the situation in surrounding areas” and the “law on the
emergency situation.” During the summer, Japan let officers of the Maritime Self
Defense Force board the USSGeorge
Washington nuclear carrier, which took part in the U.S.-south Korea joint
naval exercises in Korea's East Sea, kicking up war hysteria.
[Editor’s
Note: The North Korean controlled press does not capitalize the "S"
in South Korea, implying that it is not an independent nation].
In
reality, Japan has emerged as a war state, having made all legal, human and
material preparations needed for fighting a war of aggression. All that remains
is for Japan to secure a pretext for launching a reinvasion. To this end, Kan
repeated such rhetoric as “protection of Japanese.”
What
shouldn't be overlooked is that the present Japanese authorities are craftily
working to justify their policy of invading at a time when the situation on the
Korean Peninsula is at the brink of war due to the military clash on Yeonpyeong
Island. They're fishing in
troubled waters so that the situation serves their purposes. Whenever the
situation grows tense on the peninsula, to say nothing of when the Korean War
was fought, this has been Japan's modus operandi.
When the sinking of the warship Cheonan took place
in south Korea, Japan
used it to quell the anger of the Japanese people over the U.S. military base
in Futenma. This was done to please their American masters and benefit by helping
reinforce the military infrastructure necessary for reinvading Korea.
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Japan
is now so emboldened after taking advantage of the military clash on Yeonpyeong
Island, that it's ready to launch a war of aggression and openly hurl its
forces at the peninsula. The Japanese militarists will never realize their wild
ambition to reinvade, as all Koreans are highly vigilant against it. Instead of
making apologies and reparations for its past crimes against the Korean people,
the army and people of the DPRK will never pardon Japan for seeking the chance
to reinvade.
