PYONGYANG, August 24. /TASS/. Japan is accelerating its line toward militarization and creating conditions for further expansion of its military capabilities, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.

The authors of the report highlighted the events held on August 15 at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, which is viewed in North Korea and several other Asian countries as a symbol of militarism. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi previously sent a ritual offering to the shrine.

Pyongyang links the move to Tokyo’s military policy, specifically, the deployment of preemptive strike capabilities, plans to ease arms export restrictions, and a potential revision of Japan’s policy against possessing, producing, or hosting nuclear weapons.

Nearly 270 Ukrainian drones taken down over Russian regions during day

Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles over Crimea, the Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Oryol, Rostov, Smolensk, Tula, Moscow, and Krasnodar Regions, and the Black Sea, he Russian defense ministry said

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