North Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Directly Criticizes Japan's Defense White Paper for Labeling Itself as a Threat

[Asia Economy Reporter Yoo In-ho] The North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly criticized Japan's Defense White Paper, which it defined as a threat to its country, on the 15th.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated on its website on the same day, in an article personally authored by Ri Byung-deok, a researcher at the Japan Research Institute, that "Japan's Defense White Paper is a 'Re-invasion White Paper' that reverses black and white and blatantly reveals ambitions for re-invasion."

It continued, "The Japanese government once again labeled our country as a serious and urgent threat to their safety in the '2021 Defense White Paper,'” and pointed out, “The reality proves that the threat destroying regional peace and security is none other than coming from Japan."

This was a rebuttal to Japan's recent Defense White Paper assessment that North Korea's nuclear and missile development "significantly undermines regional and international peace and stability."

It added, "The Defense White Paper is nothing but an expression of malicious intent to exaggerate surrounding threats in order to justify war legislation and accelerate military expansion."

However, it did not comment on Japan's repeated claims of sovereignty over Dokdo in the Defense White Paper.

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