KCNA releases commentary
The commentary said:
It was made clear on the 18th that the Japanese Ministry of Defence is intending to apply for about 8.9 trillion yen as an "appropriation for defence" in the fiscal year 2027. More than 150 issues of demand will be raised at the time of compilation of the budget which is decided at the year-end and so, the "defence expenses" will increase to 10 trillion yen.
The increase of the "defence expenses" of Japan, which will renew the highest record in history again, clearly means expanding the dangerous war budget bringing a new disturbance to the region and the rest of the world. Talking about "surrounding threats", Japan has increased "defence expenses" to consecutive record level every year and transformed its "Self-Defence Forces" into modern forces of preemptive attack in the crafty way of adding additional budget to it.
Another problem is that Japan's military expenditure highest in the world increases at fast speed in the "tomb" of state debts of astronomical amount. As was known, the state debt of Japan greatly exceeded 1,343 trillion yen at the end of the year 2025, 1.5 percent of increase as against the previous year, surpassing the highest records for 10 consecutive years.
The reckless increase of war expenditure cannot provide a guarantee to the future of the archipelago and the renewed record of war budget will increase Japan's "security deficit" alone. The just regional community will never connive at the course of military evolution of the descendants of the war criminal state threatening peace and security of the whole world, but thoroughly return a blow to it with united efforts, the commentary added.