Rodong Sinmun Saturday says this in a bylined article:

Japan is a war criminal state and a defeated nation.

At the time when the Second World War came to an end, Japan had to be disarmed and left as a pacifist state under law as a war criminal state.

As a result, Japan adopted "the Pacifist Constitution" which gives assurances to the international community that it will not go to war but renounce the reinforcement of military muscle and pursue peaceful existence in the post-war period.

Accordingly, Japan has so far remained a country with the right to exclusive self-defense and a country which legally abandoned the exercise of the right to collective self-defense.

By the right to collective self-defense the Japanese reactionaries mean that even in case its ally, not Japan, comes under attack, it will have the right to declare a war and participate in it. Japan's intention is to take the road of overseas expansion under the pretext of its ally's security.

It is the sinister scenario of Japan to regain the rights to belligerency and involvement in the war as a defeated nation in the Second World War under the pretext of the right to collective self-defense.

In this way Japan is apparently seeking to dominate Asia and, furthermore, realize its old dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere".

It is a daydream for the Japanese reactionaries to realize the above-said old dream by launching overseas aggression, talking about the exercise of the right to collective self-defense.

The world will never allow Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense.