Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun Friday says:

There were not a few warmongers in Japan who unhesitatingly let loose invectives of strong militarist nature but Nakatani was the first to dare cry out for a preemptive attack on the DPRK under the pretext of the "right to collective self-defense."

What Nakatani spoke represented the attitude of the Japanese authorities.

Acts of distorting the crime-woven past history and inciting social climate for launching reinvasion are rampant in Japan.

Japan will inevitably be involved in the U.S. war of aggression in the future. It is what the Japan reactionaries hope for. Regarding it as a good opportunity for realizing its wild ambition for overseas invasion, Japan is working hard to translate its old dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" into reality.

What Nakatani uttered reflected such ulterior design of the Japanese reactionaries.

Japan is seized with overconfidence after the revision of the "guidelines for defense cooperation with the U.S" which paved the way for exercising the "right to collective self-defense". Tokyo is utterly unaware of who its rival is.

It is no more than a pipe dream for Japan to calculate that it can browbeat the DPRK with the backing of the U.S.