Government authorities of Japan including the prime minister, foreign minister, defence minister, minister of National Land and Communications and chief Cabinet secretary are openly crying out for taking military steps against the DPRK every day.

They issued orders for prompt counteraction and "measures for destroying missiles", terming the military countermeasures taken by the DPRK to cope with the U.S. actions "provocations."

Orders have been issued to the Coast Guard Agency for taking prompt counteraction and navigation alert posture for guard and watch.

It was announced that PAC-3 of its air "Self-Defence Force" would be deployed in Okinawa Prefecture from late in April on a permanent basis.

Lurking behind Japan's behavior of escalating the tension on the Korean Peninsula is a dangerous aim.

It is the scenario of Japan to seek an opportunity of beefing up its armed forces and reinvading other countries by toeing the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK and thus fish in the troubled waters as it did in the past Korean War.

As a matter of fact, it is resorting to a military adventure, offering its archipelago to the U.S. as an advanced base for aggression. This reminds one of what happened on the eve of the past Korean War.

After World War II was over, Japan expressed its intention to join in the U.S. war against the DPRK, stepping up rearmament under the protection of the U.S. It was actually involved in the war. Everything of Japan was mobilized for this war. Its air and naval "Self-Defense Forces" took an active part in the war.

It offered its territory to the U.S. as bases for attack, logistics and repair and participated and rendered cooperation in its operations for razing various parts of the DPRK to the ground. For this Japan came under "shower of gold."

It is now busy making preparations for a new Korean war.

It has already decided to provide not only U.S. military bases in it and bases of its SDF but also civilian ports and airports to the U.S. in case a new Korean war breaks out.

Formations of F-22 which took off from the U.S. military bases in Okinawa and Japan proper have been deployed in the Osan air force base in south Korea and are waiting for a chance to make a surprise strike at the DPRK.

The conversion of Japan proper into a base for a war clearly proves how hypocritical the Japanese reactionaries' motto of "protecting life and security of its people" is.

Japan had better stop recklessly working for staging a comeback to Korea, depending on its American master.

The DPRK always remembers that Japan was an accomplice in the Korean War ignited by the U.S.

Japan always remains a target of the DPRK's revolutionary armed forces. Once Japan makes even a slight provocation against the DPRK, the former will be hard hit before any others.

Those who dream of getting a "shower of gold" on the Korean Peninsula are bound to perish in the nuclear disaster.

Japan would be well advised to face up to the situation and behave itself.