Pyongyang, October 25 (KCNA) — The Japanese reactionaries persist in visiting the Yasukuni Shrine despite the opposition and denunciation from the international community.
Prime Minister Kishida and the minister of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan recently presented a tree called Sakaki as an offering to the shrine on the occasion of the autumn ancestral rite day. The minister of Economy, Trade and Industry and some 90 members of a bipartisan dietmen’s league dubbed the “Meeting of Dietmen for Visiting Yasukuni Shrine” thronged to the shrine.
The shrine is where remains of top-class war criminals, who got hell-bent on the wars for overseas aggression and organized those wars and heinous crimes against humanity and ordered their execution, are interred. That’s why any visit to the shrine is an act of making the Japanese society reactionary.
The Japanese reactionaries have misled the public by asserting that the visits to the shrine are made “in the hope of Japan and the world becoming peaceful”. This time too, they remarked that “the visit has deep meaning that there should be no igniting another war.”
How absurd and shameless the utterances are.
It is well known to the world that Japan dreams of reinvasion, not peace, and scrambles to realize its old ambition for the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” without fail.
Even at this moment, Japan’s past wars of aggression are openly feted as “just wars” and war maniacs as “heroes who sacrificed their lives for the country” in the fields of education.
Amid the ever-more intensified moves to retrogressively revise the constitution to terminate the principle of “exclusive defense” and turn Japan into a war-capable state, the prime minister, at a full-dress session of the House of Representatives days ago, vowed to revise the constitution at any cost during his term as president of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Every year Japan’s military spending hit an all-time high and the “Self-Defense Forces” are turning into ones capable of fighting a war in all areas including the sky, land, sea and space at any moment.
Not content with this, Japan is desperately working to justify the arms buildup for reinvasion by setting up a new “state security strategy”, “defense guidelines” and a “midterm defense capability improvement outline” within this year.
As seen above, Japanese militarism, which has long revived under the patronage of the U.S. imperialists, is now running amuck to turn Japan into a military giant and realize its ambition for reinvasion.
It is none other than the Yasukuni Shrine that encourages Japan to become a war-capable state and gives mental strength to it.
Presenting offerings to the shrine and paying visits to it are a dangerous act of denying and embellishing the past bloody history of aggression and stoking up the hysteria for reinvasion.
The reckless moves of the Japanese reactionaries seriously threatening the regional and global peace and security will certainly meet a fiasco, mercilessly punished by the DPRK and other Asian countries and the international community. -0-
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