SpaceWar.com reports: “A new Japanese defence policy white paper showed the country was seeking to be a major military power, North Korean state media reported a foreign ministry official as saying Friday, who justified Pyongyang’s nuclear program on that basis.

The policy section chief of the Institute for Japan Studies under the foreign ministry described the Japanese defence white paper, approved this week, as ‘a war scenario for realizing its ambition for reinvasion from A to Z,’ the Korean Central News Agency said.

The white paper was approved by the cabinet of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Tuesday.

It argued, among other things, that China’s intensifying military activities could seriously impact Japanese security, citing the first confirmed incursion by a Chinese military aircraft into its airspace…”