Japan, a war criminal state, is stepping up the battle formation to launch a war for reinvasion.

On March 24, it officially inaugurated an “integrated operation command” comprehensively controlling the Ground, Maritime and Air “Self-Defense Forces” for the practical use of long-range missiles.

Prior to this, it was made public that Japan is going to deploy US-made intermediate-range missiles for action in the archipelago and home-made missiles with a range of about 1 000 km in Kyushu.

The reality proves that the Japanese militarists’ overseas aggression is no longer imagination or speculation but a fait accompli, and it is as clear as noonday that the DPRK will be the first target of their attack.

Over the past 80 years Japan, a defeated nation gnashing its teeth with revenge, has concentrated all efforts on the scheme to turn itself into a war state capable of invading other countries again anytime.

The preparations for it have reached the final stage.

Japan has created environment and conditions for joining a war anytime by forming an Asian version of NATO in Northeast Asia based on the US-Japan-ROK military alliance system, zealously pursuant to the US aggression moves for hegemony, and by establishing its independent full-time mission at NATO in January this year. And it is putting spurs to the effort to revise its constitution to turn itself into a “state capable of fighting a war” at an early date.

Japan’s arms buildup is also at a serious stage.

It was announced that the amounts of weapons purchased by Japan from abroad in recent years have nearly doubled as compared with the past, with 97 percent of them imported from the US. Such survey data draw the attention of the international community.

This year alone, Japan is going to purchase a large quantity of various kinds of strike means from the US, including intermediate-range air-to-air missiles and air-to-ground long-range cruise missiles, while getting more frantic than ever before to further increase the range of missiles it has already developed and possessed.

Amid the successive commissioning of various kinds of warships which will stand in the van of overseas aggression, a project for moving the commands of the SDF to underground was pushed forward and the purchase of large transport planes is being stepped up to ensure the rapid transfer of armed forces to the continent. Shortly ago, Japan inaugurated a maritime transport force of the SDF.

Japan is moving for war readiness at an unprecedented rate.

In January, it staged the largest-ever airborne landing drill aimed at a sudden preemptive attack by inviting troops from 11 countries such as the US and Britain to the archipelago and conducted the US-Japan-ROK joint air drill in the sky over the area near the Korean peninsula. In February, it dispatched even a virtual aircraft carrier to the waters out of its territory to frantically stage a drill for overseas aggression with the US and other war forces from across the ocean.

In March, Japan also conducted sabre-rattling with riff-raffs in the waters around it. Not content with this, it took part in the US-Japan-ROK naval drill recently conducted in the waters off Jeju Island, openly flying the “flag of rising sun shedding rays.”

It is clear what it means to step up the deployment of long-range strike means for action and establish a command system for their use in an actual war, under such environment in which Japan is pushing the situation to the extreme.

Japan is accelerating its institutional and military preparations for aggression on the continent at the final stage and has created an international climate to this end. It is now advancing to a line of fire to invade the continent.

It is a matter of time for Japan to fire the first gun for reinvasion.

The Japanese militarists, the sworn enemy of the Korean people, should clearly know that the line of fire Japan is daring to approach will be turned into its bottomless grave.