Pyongyang, November 5 (KCNA) -- Whenever opportunity presents itself in international arena, Japan calls for "dismantlement of nukes". This is an expression of the imprudent and deceptive nature peculiar to Japan.

Can it be true that Japan has the right to talk about denuclearization?

Japan goes under the U.S. "nuclear umbrella," and the "three non-nuclear principles" touted by it is the other side of its theory on nuclear weaponization.

Successive ruling quarters of Japan have never abandoned its nuclear ambition.

Former Prime Minister Sato said at the meeting of the House of Representatives in June 1969, just after his announcement of the "three non-nuclear principles" that the principles can be mended anytime with changes in policy and Cabinet.

Prime Minister Fukuta told the Budget Committee of the House of Councillors in March 1978 that a decision may be adopted on equipping the country's armed forces with nukes.

In the 1980s the then prime minister, Nakasone, took the lead in stirring up the wind for revival of militarism. He frequently underscored the need for Japan to have access to nuclear weapons and even remarked that nuclear possession accords with the Constitution.

In the 1990s the chief executives of Japan declared that Japan is capable of possessing nuclear weapons, saying that it is technically possible to go nuclear.

In 2002 Japan staged campaign to build up the public opinion calling for nuclear arming. At that time a high-ranking official told at a press conference that possession of nukes is possible for exclusive defense and there is no reason to deny it.

The reactionary quarters of Japan have made desperate efforts to put the plan for nuclear weaponization into practice, not merely in word.

Research into nuclear arming has entered a new stage since 1995. The government ordered experts of the Defense Agency to make study of the issue of Japan's nuclear weaponization under the changed situation with the end of the Cold War.

Japan has also stepped up the material preparations for such scheme. To secure plutonium, it put into operation Monju, the first fast breeder reactor in the country. It also built a uranium enrichment plant in Rokkasho-mura of Aomori Prefecture to perfect the nuclear material processing system which includes enrichment, reprocessing and stockpiling.

The leader of the Liberal Party of Japan said in a lecture in April 2002: It is easy to produce nuclear warheads. Atomic power plants of Japan are keeping large amount of plutonium enough to manufacture thousands of nuclear warheads.

Japan is the world's biggest possessor of plutonium. It has capability to manufacture and possess many nukes in a short period anytime when it is determined.

Moreover, Japan wears the U.S. "nuclear umbrella", whereby the U.S. is to make retaliatory attack with its nukes if any ally of it suffers nuclear attack from other country.

Japan promised the U.S. in secrecy as early as in 1960 to approve tacitly any port-call and passage of U.S. warships loaded with nukes through its territorial waters.

The U.S.-Japan pact on military alliance, in which the two sides promised in secrecy the introduction of nukes, is still taking effect.

As a matter of fact, Japan can be said to have already and fully armed itself with nuclear weapons under the U.S. "nuclear umbrella".

It is not fit for Japan, a "nuclear weapons state", to call for denuclearization.

Japan had better stop chanting such hypocritical call.