In the meantime, Japan held the ceremony of putting into commission ultra-modern attack submarine Seiru and mine sweeper Hirado and is stepping up the final assembly of F-35A fighters after introducing parts for 42 fighters as part of its strong push for arming the SDF with attack weapons.

A commentary of Rodong Sinmun Wednesday brands this as a vicious challenge to the positive developments created on the Korean peninsula.

It goes on:

The crafty Japanese reactionaries, who have sought their own interests through escalation of north-south confrontation and the tension on the peninsula, calculate that they have to incite the atmosphere of military confrontation in order to realize Japan's growing ambition for reinvasion. That's why they have vociferated about "threats" from someone and are spurring the moves for turning Japan into a military giant under this pretext.

Truly pitiful are the Japanese reactionaries as they hardly discard the narrow-minded habit of a political dwarf.

Those who fail to remember the past have no future and those who follow in the footsteps of criminals are bound to meet a severer punishment. This is the lesson of history.

The Japanese reactionaries should not run amuck, mindful that their act of kicking up the militarist frenzy in a bid to stem the trend of the times will push them deeper into the abyss of isolation and destruction.