Commenting on this, a news analyst of Rodong Sinmun Wednesday observes:

The moves to tighten sanctions against the DPRK intensified by Japan under the signboard of implementing the UNSC's "resolution on sanctions" against the DPRK is a politically motivated grave provocation intended to create legal atmosphere for the use of military force against the DPRK.

Japan adopted it as the core of its state and foreign policies to intensify the hostile policy toward the DPRK and buckled down to their implementation, considering that it would bring earlier the day of reinvasion of Korea.

It is Japan's calculation that tightened sanctions and increased pressure and blockade against the DPRK would either bring the DPRK into submission or help create a war atmosphere as desired by it. The Japanese reactionaries' anti-DPRK confrontational hysteria reveals their militarist disposition and ambition to swallow up the DPRK at any cost, without flinching even if they fail to do so.

The Japanese ruling forces are playing a clumsy trick to win back popularity, weather their political crisis and prolong their remaining days by imbuing the Japanese society with the fever of confrontation with the DPRK.

If Japan dares stop the DPRK-flagged ships sailing in the sea under the pretext of "cargo inspection," this action will bring it irrevocable consequences.

Japan should immediately drop the reckless anti-DPRK confrontational hysteria, properly judging the unshakable stand and will of the DPRK to retaliate against its "sanctions" and counter "confrontation" with all-out confrontation.