SEOUL: North Korea on Sunday lashed out at Japan’s hawkish prime minister for seeking to revise Tokyo’s pacifist post-World War II constitution, calling Shinzo Abe a “militarist maniac.”

In a New Year comment, Abe said the country’s constitution—which limits its military to self-defense—could be amended by 2020, days after his visit to a controversial war shrine in Tokyo enraged Asian neighbors.

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