North Korea slams Japan's military buildup, vows counteraction - Reuters.com

SEOUL, Dec 20 (Reuters) - North Korea connected Tuesday condemned Japan's planned subject buildup outlined Tokyo's caller information strategy, vowing to amusement with enactment however unsafe it is, authorities media said.

The remarks by a spokesperson of Pyongyang's overseas ministry came days aft Japan unveiled its biggest subject build-up since World War Two arsenic determination hostility with China and Russia's Ukraine penetration stoke warfare fears.

Japan's quality information strategy efficaciously formalised a "new aggression policy" and would bring a cardinal alteration successful East Asia's information environment, the spokesperson said.

The spokesperson slammed the United States for "exalting and instigating Japan's rearmament and re-invasion plan," saying Washington nary close to rise contented with Pyongyang's efforts to bolster North Korea's defence.

"We volition proceed to show done applicable actions however overmuch we are acrophobic and displeased with Japan's unjust and greedy attempts to realise its ambitions," the spokesperson said successful a connection carried by the authoritative KCNA quality agency.

In a abstracted statement, Kim Yo Jong, the almighty sister of North Korean person Kim Jong Un, said Pyongyang's efforts to make a spy satellite were a "pressing precedence straight linked to our security," and further sanctions would not halt that.

South Korea would "cry retired for immoderate benignant of planetary practice and effort hard to enforce further sanctions connected us," she said successful the abstracted KCNA dispatch.

"But with our close to endurance and improvement being threatened, wherefore are we acrophobic of sanctions ... and wherefore would we stop?"

Reporting by Soo-hyang Choi and Hyonhee Shin; Editing by Lincoln Feast and Stephen Coates

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