{"id":45615,"date":"2026-06-23T03:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/45615\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T03:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:50:09","slug":"north-koreas-kim-says-defeated-japan-transforming-into-a-war-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/45615\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea\u2019s Kim says \u2018defeated\u2019 Japan transforming into a \u2018war state\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un<\/a> criticised Japan as turning into a \u201cwar state\u201d, in a speech during a three-day meeting held through Monday, according to official news media.\u201cJapan<\/a>, a defeated country in Asia, has openly turned itself into a war state by taking the present disturbing circumstances as an opportunity to get rid of all shackles restricting its moves to become a military power,\u201d he said, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is inviting a strong backlash and serious concern from the international community,\u201d he added in the concluding speech during a meeting of the ruling party.<\/p>\n

It is believed to be the first time that Kim has referred to \u201cmoves to become a military power\u201d and \u201cmilitarism\u201d in criticising Japan.<\/p>\n

Kim also pushed for a faster build-up of national defence capabilities. He vowed that with nuclear technology as a basis, \u201cmore extensive, innovative and encouraging plans would be carried out with increasing speed\u201d, the report said.<\/p>\n

Kim then set forth \u201ctasks to dynamically carry out the work to increase powerful defence assets without pause in our own way and with a goal of overtaking the world\u201d, KCNA said.<\/p>\n

The speech was given during a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers\u2019 Party of Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Korean leader Kim Jong-un criticised Japan as turning into a \u201cwar state\u201d, in a speech during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31969,12,1707,8,1919,2302,2549,449,1922,6212,657,84,2934,31970],"class_list":["post-45615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-central-committee","tag-china","tag-europe","tag-japan","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-korean-central-news-agency","tag-korean-peninsula","tag-middle-east","tag-north-korea","tag-pyongyang","tag-south-korea","tag-u-s","tag-united-nations","tag-workers-party-of-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}