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Rodong Sinmun Accuses Japan of Contemplating Going Nuclear
Pyongyang, July 1 (KCNA) -- The Japanese Diet passed a draft amendment to a main law on atomic energy.

The Japanese reactionaries added a new item to the law, claiming they would use the atomic energy to make contributions to "ensuring the state security".

A bylined article of DPRK major paper Rodong Sinmun on Sunday calls Japan's claim an open declaration to go nuclear under the pretext of "ensuring the state security".

The article says:

The Japanese reactionaries said they firmly adhere to the three non-nuclear principles, the principle of peaceful use of atomic energy and that they have no plan to exclusively use it for military purposes.

But they all turned out to be an excuse of those who felt uneasy.

Going nuclear is an ultimate goal of Japan seeking to become a military giant.

In 1965, the then Prime Minister of Japan Sato at talks with the then president of the U.S. highlighted the need of having access to nuclear weapons.

Sato's call was followed by Prime Minister Fukuta at the budget commission of the House of Councilors in March of 1978 and Prime Minister Nakasone in the 1980s.

Japan's ruling quarters openly declared in the 1990s and also in the new century that they have ability for possessing nukes, saying that it is technologically possible for Japan to go nuclear.

Japan totally denied the Constitution or interpreted it as it pleased in the 1950s in a bid to justify its attempt to go nuclear.

It conducted a secret research into the possibility of going nuclear in the 1967-1970 period.

Japan has worked hard to legalize its nuclear armament from 1995.

It has made earnest material and technological preparations for developing nuclear weapons.

It set a far-reaching goal of relying on a fast breeder reactor fueled by plutonium in the 1950s and has stockpiled a large quantity of nuclear material by operating a reprocessing factory from the mid-1970s.

On the other hand, Japan massively shipped plutonium from abroad.

Entering the new century, Japan has become evermore undisguised in its stand towards nuclear armament.

The true intention sought by Japan in trying to go nuclear is to stage a comeback to Asia and conquer other parts of the world.

Herein lies the great danger of Japan's moves to go nuclear.

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