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

This is an indication that the Japanese reactionaries are seeking to further aggravate the present tense situation of the Korean Peninsula and join the U.S. in its military strategy toward Korea aimed to mount a preemptive strike on it.

Japan's military moves are a grave provocation and encroachment upon the dignity, sovereignty and security of the DPRK.

The Japanese reactionaries have watched for a chance to do harm to the DPRK, always regarding it as an enemy by taking advantage of the U.S. hostile policy toward it. It is because they have chosen the DPRK as the first target for realizing their ambition for militarist overseas aggression.

They are busy concentrating their armed forces around the Korean Peninsula and firing bullets and shells to reek off the smell of powder at a time when the DPRK is exposed to a grave military threat owing to the U.S. and the south Korean puppets' reckless anti-DPRK confrontational policy. This is a sort of declaration of war heralding that if an opportunity presents itself they will not remain with folded arms but join the U.S. in provoking a Korean war.

The DPRK has already declared that if anyone infringes upon its dignity and sovereignty even a bit, it will give mercilessly annihilating revenge upon him.

This declaration of the DPRK will be fully applied to Japan, too.