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North Korea vows to strengthen war-deterrence against Japan's security bill

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<span>This image captured by Google Earth image showsed North Korean students practicing formations reflecting numbers or slogans at the Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyaong on Saturday. Radio Free Asia noted that they were most likely training for the ceremony for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the North Korean Workers' Party, which falls on Oct. 10. /Google/Yonhap</span><br /><br />
This image captured by Google Earth image showsed North Korean students practicing formations reflecting numbers or slogans at the Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyaong on Saturday. Radio Free Asia noted that they were most likely training for the ceremony for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the North Korean Workers' Party, which falls on Oct. 10. /Google/Yonhap

North Korea has vowed to strengthen its war-deterrence in response to Japan's revised security bill which the regime says amounts to "ambition for reinvasion."


The North's Foreign Ministry put out a statement late Saturday, decrying that "Japan is forgetting lessons from history and walking toward the path of militarization and reinvasion."

In addition, "Japan's security bill is a vicious law that opens the way for Japan to invade other countries," the statement read.

The North said that it will not sit idly by, and that "We will strengthen our power to deter war to counter the dangerous aggression schemes taking place around us."

Japan's parliament early on Saturday morning passed 11 security bills that will allow the country's Self-Defense Forces to fight alongside its allies even if Japan is not under attack.

The bills provide the country with the right to "collective self-defense," which is reportedly the centerpiece of the new Guidelines for U.S.-Japan Defense Cooperation adopted in April.

Kim Ji-soo janee@koreatimes.co.kr


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