Minju Joson Tuesday observes in a signed commentary carried in this regard:

The moves frantically stepped up by the Japanese reactionaries to build a missile shield under the pretext of someone's "launch of ballistic missile" are aimed at neutralizing the DPRK's self-reliant war deterrent and putting their "strategy of preemptive attack" on the DPRK into practice at any cost.

Huge aggressor forces of the U.S. and Japan are deployed in south Korea and in its vicinity and all of their war hardware is targeted on major objects and strongholds of strategic importance in the DPRK. Armistice has been preserved on the Korean Peninsula with difficulty despite such acute military confrontation thanks to the DPRK's powerful war deterrent. What the Japanese reactionaries seek is to upset the military equilibrium between the KPA side and its enemies on the peninsula. By steadily renewing and rounding off the anti-missile technology and system they seek to fully realize their scenario of "preemptive attack" on the DPRK by neutralizing its self-reliant war deterrent and thereby ensuring their military strategic edge and supremacy.

Their military moves to stifle the DPRK by force of arms and reinvade Asia have reached a more serious phase. The army and people of the DPRK can never remain a passive onlooker to this development.

The desperate efforts of the Japanese reactionaries to step up the policy of military confrontation towards the DPRK compel its army and people to take powerful and effective military and physical counter-measures to cope with it.

The Japanese reactionaries will be held wholly accountable for all the ensuing consequences.