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Minju Joson Terms Japan's Revision of Security Bills Political Suicide

Pyongyang, June 23 (KCNA) -- The three witnesses who had been invited to be present at the recent constitutional deliberation at the House of Representatives of Japan in the capacity of legal experts were unanimous in expressing their views that the revision of the security bills for allowing the exercise of the "right to collective self-defense" was unconstitutional. Meanwhile, at least 261 050 Japanese citizens signed papers in protest against the revision of the bills and more than 25 000 Japanese encircled the Diet Building on June 14, strongly protesting against the present government's moves to revise the security bills.

Commenting on this, Minju Joson Tuesday says the strong protest made by the broad public of Japan against the government's attempt to revise the bills goes to prove their disagreement with the government's view on the country's security matter.

It goes on:

If the proposed revision of the security bills is aimed at protecting Japan's security and ensuring peace and stability in the region as claimed by the present Japanese ruling forces, there will be no reason for the Japanese to oppose it so strongly.

The Japanese people had already suffered too much from the past war of aggression.

It is the wild ambition of the Japanese ultra-right conservative politicians that they can realize the old dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" only through a war.

The sinister intention of the Japanese reactionaries to deceive the people and drive them into meaningless death is no longer workable.

It is the public mindset of Japan that its people should not be allowed to fall victim to another war as the revision of the security bills means a political suicide.