Pyongyang/Tokyo, July 18 -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has heavily criticised Japan's 2025 defence white paper, calling it "a war scenario for realising its ambition for reinvasion from A to Z," the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported today.
"It is the 'common knowledge' that Japan has revised its National Security Strategy to include 'pre-emptive attack capabilities', accelerating both the development of domestically produced long-range missiles and the procurement of foreign-made ones in recent years," the KCNA said, citing the policy section chief of the Institute for Japan Studies under DPRK's Foreign Ministry.
Japan has lately been revising its military policy, moving from its initial stric...