KCNA Commentary Blames U.S. for Escalated Tension on Korean Peninsula

Pyongyang, June 27 (KCNA) -- Shortly ago, the U.S. summoned the south Korean puppet officials to Washington to hold foreign and defense ministerial talks there.
At the talks the U.S. cried out for defending south Korea by mobilizing all U.S. military forces, again citing the non-existent "threat" and "provocations" from the DPRK.
They agreed on jointly building a missile shield and stipulated in a joint statement the U.S. sustained provision of the "extended deterrence" to south Korea.
This clearly tells who is chiefly to blame for the escalated tension on the Korean Peninsula as it betrays the U.S. invariable design to stifle the DPRK at any cost by force of arms, with every means and method involved including the use of nukes.
It was none other than the U.S. that openly beefed up armed forces and stepped up moves for a nuclear war against the DPRK in wanton violation of the Armistice Agreement (AA), rendering the situation on the peninsula extremely tense.
It unilaterally declared the abrogation of Paragraph 13 D of the AA and systematically introduced into south Korea more than 1 000 nuclear weapons of various types together with huge quantities of military hardware, thus turning south Korea into the world's biggest nuclear base.
The U.S. concluded the "mutual defense treaty" with south Korea to legalize its troops' presence in south Korea, an open challenge to Paragraph 60, the main provision of the AA which calls for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from the Korean Peninsula and peaceful settlement of the Korean issue.
It also illegally introduced heavy weapons and combatants into demilitarized zone (DMZ) in violation of Paragraphs 6 and 10 of the AA, turning the areas along the Military Demarcation Line into an advanced base for a new war.
The U.S. is becoming evermore frantic in its moves to launch a new war.
Its military has given priority to beefing up its aggression forces in south Korea. Accordingly, huge quantities of new type offensive weapons are being additionally deployed in the units of the U.S. forces.
U.S. units supposed to be transferred to Phyongthaek U.S. base south of the River Han are being relocated in the front areas. The U.S. forces side is closeted with the puppet forces over the issue of keeping the U.S.-south Korea "Combined Forces Command" as it is even after the transfer of the right to command wartime operations to south Korea.
Large-scale joint military exercises are going on one after another.
The U.S. staged a joint military drill together with Japanese and south Korean forces in the South Sea of Korea on June 21 and 22 and a joint naval maneuver with the south Korean forces in the West Sea from June 23 to 25 with nuclear-powered carrier George Washington involved.
On June 22 the U.S. forces staged the largest-ever joint live shell firing in the area south of the DMZ in league with south Korea. In this drill they