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Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, in a commentary issued on July 18 accused Japan of finding fault with the DPRK-Russia cooperation.

She noted that the Japanese defense ministry in a recently issued “white paper” repeated the stereotyped claim that the DPRK-Russia cooperation is aggravating the situation in the Asian region, intentionally playing up the “threat from Russia and the DPRK and from China’s actions in the Taiwan Strait”.

Japan is trying to accelerate militarization and justify the military collusion with the Western allies, especially NATO members outside the region, she said.