Rodong Sinmun Wednesday observes in a signed commentary in this regard: This claim brought into bolder relief the absurdity and hypocrisy of the "three non-nuclear principles" touted by Japan so far.

Japan, the world's only atomic-bombed country, adopted the above-said three principles banning introduction, manufacture and possession of nuclear weapons as its state policy, saying that it "hates nukes". But the U.S.-Japan secret nuclear agreement virtually reduced these principles to a mere slogan from the very day they were enunciated.

Japan, however, continues advocating the "three non-nuclear principles", feigning ignorance of the above-mentioned secret nuclear agreement with the U.S. Lurking behind this is its sinister intention to press for nuclear weaponization at the tacit connivance of its American master and under his patronage in return for allowing the U.S. shipment and deployment of nuclear weapons in Japan.

It is an invariable wild ambition of Japan and its strategic goal for emerging a military power to go nuclear.

The Japanese militarists have stepped up nuclear weaponization overtly and covertly, grumbling that Japan sustained a defeat in World War II because it was weak and had no access to nukes.

Japan's nuclear weaponization is becoming a reality, not just speculation and hypothesis. The danger of such moves lies in that Japan seeks to launch overseas aggression for world domination after going nuclear.

Japan's much-touted "three non-nuclear principles" remain in name only. They are nothing but a fig-leaf for covering up its nuclear ambition as it is a deception and mockery of the international community.

With no trite trick can Japan conceal its ambition for nuclear weaponization.