Regarding Japan's push to revise its "three major security documents," North Korea criticized it as "a clear manifestation of the new militarist frenzy that seeks to completely deny the blood-soaked crimes of the past and, through rapid rearmament, stubbornly rebuild the old imperialist era."
Korean Central News Agency stated accordingly in a commentary on the 11th titled "The terminus of new militarism is not a stronger Japan but a defeated Japan."
Korean Central News Agency claimed, "The prime minister's official declaration at the very start of the new year to revise three security-related documents within the year is due to the reinvasion frenzy of far-right forces that are rushing the archipelago into new militarism." It went on, "What Japan will gain from new militarism is nothing but complete ruin," and "as history proves, the terminus of militarism is not a stronger Japan but a defeated Japan."
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said in a New Year's press conference on the 5th that the government will proceed with a review this year with the goal of revising the "three major security documents."
The three major security documents—National Security Strategy, National Defense Strategy and Defense Buildup Program—form the backbone of Japan's security policy. Given that the Japanese Constitution stipulates the permanent renunciation of war and the exercise of force, some assess that the content of the security document revisions will serve as a gauge of how far the work advances toward becoming a de facto "war-capable state."