calendar>>November 22. 2017 Juche 106

Minju Joson Rejects Japan's Territorial Claim to Tok Islets as Pipe Dream

Pyongyang, November 22 (KCNA) -- The Japan Defense Ministry in its defense white paper, published every year since 2005, has specified Japan's dominium over Tok Islets as a fait accompli. The same thing happened in the defense white paper for this year, too. In the meantime, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan decided to put into practice next year the measure for implementing the future study guidance for primary and secondary schools which made it obligatory to educate students in Japan's dominium over Tok Islets, even though it was originally planned to be applied in 2020 and 2021 respectively.

A commentary of Minju Joson Wednesday dismisses Japan's territorial claim to Tok Islets as a gangster-like far-fetched assertion.

Japan's territorial claim to Tok Islets is fundamentally different from the issues of retaking territory usurped by other country or restoring the sovereignty of a country in its nature, because Tok Islets are not Japan's territories but part of the inviolable territory of Korea, the commentary says, and goes on:

Very clear is the reason that Japan is making so strong claim for the islets which are so small as to be marked as a point on map.

If they make Tok Islets territories of Japan, the islets can be taken as having been occupied by other country and then this will be enough to kindle the ambition for restoration of sovereignty and territory among the Japanese nationals.

This is the point sought by the Japanese authorities. In order to make a territorial issue and then create conditions favorable for realizing their ambition for militarist reinvasion, the Japanese authorities have become so zealous in their call for dominium over the islets.

Their scheme for reinvasion while eyeing the post of "leader of Asia" is a foolish dream that can never come true.