North Korea Slams Japan Over Tomahawk Cruise Missile Test

August 5, 2026 | 02:16 pm

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - North Korea condemned Japan's recent test of a Tomahawk cruise missile, state media reported on Wednesday.

Kim Yo Jong, the powerful younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, urged the international community to raise vigilance against what she called 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,” said Kim, who is also a senior official of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, as quoted by ANTARA.

The statement came days after Japan's Self-Defense Forces conducted the first test of a U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missile launched from a destroyer.

"The international community should heighten vigilance against the reckless military ambition of the descendants of the war criminal state keen on realizing the old daydream of Japan's wartime expansionism," Kim said.

Japan's national security strategy adopted in 2022 paves the way for the country to have the capability to attack enemy missile bases as a self-defense measure, while remaining within the constraints of its war-renouncing constitution, according to Kyodo news agency.

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