Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- Shortly ago, a Japanese high-ranking conservative politician at the place where the Ground "Self-Defense Force" is stationed in Hokkaido let loose a spate of reckless remarks that "there is not yet any environment where the SDF can act within the framework legitimately stipulated by the Constitution" and "it is necessary to create at the earliest possible date such environment through cooperation among politicians, regardless of ruling or opposition parties."

Rodong Sinmun Thursday says in a bylined commentary in this regard:

This indicates that the moves to revise the existing Constitution in Japan for the purpose of developing the SDF into "a legitimate army" and using it as a military tool for realizing its ambition for overseas aggression have gained in an undisguised new dimension.

The existing Constitution which Japan has so far advocated as a "symbol of pacifist state" bans the possession of any regular forces and military capability forces and participation in any war. The Japanese militarists now regard it as an extremely troublesome and cumbersome thing as they seek to turn Japan into a military power and realize their ambition for reinvasion.

That is why they are making a desperate effort to rewrite the Constitution overtly and covertly. Their ultimate goal is to make the "pacifist Constitution" a war Constitution. Japan's purpose is to turn the SDF into a regular army and put the establishment of a wartime mobilization system and start of a war on a legal and political basis.

In a word, the Japanese reactionaries are set to pave the way for reinvasion and realize their militarist ambition in a legitimate manner by adopting the above-said war constitution.

Herein lies the criminal and dangerous nature of the moves to revise the Constitution.

Japan is contemplating further modernizing its militarist forces in a bid to round off its preparations for overseas aggression and go into action any moment. The first target of this scenario is the DPRK.

A spate of reckless remarks calling for the dispatch of the SDF in "contingency" on the Korean Peninsula are let loose and the attempt to grab Tok Islets are openly disclosed by the Japanese reactionary ruling forces. This eloquently proves that their reinvasion of Korea is becoming a reality.