PYONGYANG, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Wednesday slammed a Japanese lawmaker for drumming up military rearmament by creating various pretexts of threats from the DPRK.
The official daily Rodong Sinmun said that Katsuyuki Kawai, who is also a special aide to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has recently said there is need to discuss the issue of arming its Self-Defense Forces with intermediate-range ballistic missiles and cruise missiles.
The Japanese lawmaker also recently met with the head of the Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based policy research institute, and asserted the need to introduce cruise missiles into Self-Defense Forces, said the official daily of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea.
"It is a revelation of the shameless aggression scheme of the Japan ultra-right forces to step up militarist rearmament by creating whatever pretexts in order to realize the ambition for overseas expansion," said the daily.
It also said Japan has long switched the direction of bolstering its military capabilities to attack-oriented and has made efforts to put regional countries within its striking range.
