Officers of Japan's Maritime "Self-Defence Force" participated on the pretext of "observer" in the largest-ever U.S.-south Korea joint naval exercises staged in the East Sea of Korea in July.

Japan awkwardly defended this fact, stating that the officers did not directly take part in the exercises but watched their process only on the U.S. navy's carrier "George Washington".

Such justification was prompted by Japan's proper shrewd calculation to calm down international criticism to be caused by the violation of the constitution which bans exercise of the "right of collective self-defense".

As been known to everyone, the said joint naval exercises were an adventurous and reckless saber-rattling for improving the tactics of war against the DPRK under the signboard of "defence" and "deterrence". Involved in the rehearsal were huge naval and air forces including the surface and underwater nuclear strike means made up of the U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier and submarines and several hundred fighter planes.

It was very childish to make such justification that the MSDF got on the nuclear aircraft carrier merely to play "observers".

Public opinions have expressed their concern at the participation of MSDF's officers in the exercises "as observers", contending that it is a serious matter in relation to the future role of Japan's "Self-Defence Forces".

Japan's Tokyo Shimbun said it is very exceptional that the SDF participated in the military exercises aimed at a specified country though as an "observer".

What can not be overlooked is the fact that the chief Cabinet secretary of Japan made remarks intended to grab Tok Islets again to coincide with the said participation.

In this regard, a spokesman for south Korea's Democratic Labor Party denounced the SDF's participation in the exercises as Japan's scheme to advance into the East Sea of Korea in a bid to grab the islets.

These facts fully reveal Japan's wild ambition for reinvasion that has reached a dangerous stage.

The Japanese reactionaries seek to make a breakthrough for their ambition for overseas expansion by toeing the U.S. strategy of aggression on the DPRK.

They sent the MSDF officers to the U.S.-south Korea joint naval exercises under the signboard of "observer" and "inspection" this time. With it as a precedent, they are attempting to openly hurl the SDF troops into the U.S.-south Korea joint military exercises in the future.

Japan's participation in the U.S.-led madcap military maneuvers, conducted with the case of warship sinking in south Korea as an occasion, was evidently motivated by its ulterior scheme to stage a comeback to Korea.

If Japan seeks to realize its wild ambition for reinvasion of Korea, oblivious of the lesson of history, it will meet irrevocably destructive consequences.