He let loose bellicose remarks at a meeting of the House of Councilors that in case Tok Islets come under "missile attack " from outside, it would be "an attack on Japan".

Rodong Sinmun Monday observes in a bylined commentary carried in this regard:

This openly laid bare the criminal scenario of the Japanese militarist forces to make "Japan's dominion on Tok Islets" a fait accompli and stage a comeback to Korea any time under the pretext of "protecting" them.

The Japanese authorities are raising a claim to Tok Islets even at a time when the country suffered huge human and material losses due to the recent killer quake and its aftermath is not yet eradicated. This helps one guess what extent their ambition for territorial aggrandizement has reached.

One can hardly interpret this ambition of the Japanese reactionaries as one harbored by them simply because of the lack of knowledge about history or political and moral baseness.

This was prompted by the bellicose scenario of the Japanese militarists to stage a comeback to Korea as they are still keen to realize the dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere".

It is the calculation of the Japanese reactionaries that they cannot realize their ambition to reinvade Asia unless they bring the DPRK under their control. They are, therefore, watching for a chance of reinvasion while stepping up their hostile policy toward the DPRK.

It is a sinister aim sought by them to convince the international community and the Japanese people that Tok Islets belong to their territory and invent a pretext for grabbing them and staging a comeback to Korea.

Their ambition to seize Tok Islets is no more than a daydream.