NKorea says Japan seeking to be a ‘military giant’

SEOUL, South Korea — A new Japanese defense 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 defense 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….