North Korea has condemned Japan’s recent test-firing of a Tomahawk cruise missile, labelling the country a “war criminal state,” state media reported on Wednesday.
Kim Yo-jong, the powerful younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, urged the international community to heighten vigilance over Japan’s “wartime expansionism,” the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
“It is now clear that such moves were, after all, a camouflaged tactic to cover up its ambition for a military giant,” Kim, an executive of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, was quoted as saying.
Her remarks came days after Japan’s Self-Defence Forces conducted their first test-firing of a US-made Tomahawk cruise missile from a destroyer.
Japanese destroyer JS Chokai (DDG-176) launched a Tomahawk cruise missile for the first time on July 29, a major milestone as the archipelago country’s military works alongside the US Navy to expand its capabilities.
