Rodong Sinmun Tuesday observes in a signed commentary carried in this regard:

The conclusion drawn from the recently disclosed documents of the secret nuclear pact between Japan and the U.S. is that the forces of the LDP of Japan are the warlike forces who have persistently pursued the nuclear ambition since the end of the war and the documents secretly worked out by them with the U.S. are criminal documents on a nuclear war related to the use of nuclear weapons in "contingency" on the Korean Peninsula, to all intents and purposes.

The Japanese militarists are set to achieve at any cost their criminal purpose with a nuclear stick any time as they are keen to launch reinvasion, blinded with extreme revengeful thoughts and ambition for overseas expansion.

Its spearhead is directed to the DPRK. This is evidenced by the fact that the above-said documents contain clauses allowing the U.S. forces to use the bases in Japan and the U.S. forces' warships with nukes on board to make portcalls on Japan and transit through its territorial waters in "contingency" on the peninsula.

The DPRK cannot but take a serious note of the fact that the U.S. has sought a chance to mount a preemptive nuclear attack on the DPRK by using south Korea and Japan as its nuclear outposts.

The U.S. seeks to use Japan as an operational, logistic and sortie base and a base for nuclear attacks on the DPRK and other Asian countries in a bid to seize the whole of Korea by provoking another Korean war and establish its domination over Asia.

This is the very reason why the U.S. imperialists deployed a huge number of nuclear weapons in south Korea and Japan and signed a secret pact with their junior ally.

The U.S. imperialists are staging ceaseless war exercises of various forms in south Korea and Japan by mobilizing nuclear forces, making constant nuclear blackmail against the DPRK.

The DPRK is left with no option but to bolster up its nuclear deterrent for self-defence, a treasured sword for defending the sovereignty of the country and the nation, so long as it remains exposed to the enemies' constant nuclear threat and the danger of their preemptive nuclear attack on it.