Korea Worries About Tokyo Buildup

Despite the dire threat just a stone's throw from Seoul, South Korea is more concerned about the arms buildup ongoing from Japan:

Every time North Korea fired missiles, Japan was quick to exaggerate the danger of North Korea and to step up its armament. Japan already possesses one of the biggest military powers in the world in terms of both weapons and budget. Some say that the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (SDF) has limits, because the Japanese SDF is composed of only officers and has never been at war. Experts point out, however, that Japan has the potential to manufacture nuclear weapons and is one of the three biggest military forces in the world, if its electronic weapons equipped with cutting-edge technology...The self-defense forces might end up doing more than self-defense. It is breaking free of its inhibitions one by one.
Japan has long been working to increase its military strength. Citing the North Korean threat, it enacted its three war-time laws, integrated its ground, maritime, and air forces of the Japan Self-defense Agency, and developed a missile defense system. It abolished a part of its three rules prohibiting the export of weapons, and dispatched its forces in what it called an effort for world peace.

Though I can understand Korea's concern considering Japan's warlike history, this sounds like the Left in our on country saying "America used the excuse of 9/11 to invade other countries." What would they have us do, ignore those who would seek to destroy our civilization and way of life? Apparently so. Democracies are now the real threat to peace, according those who would appease dictators.