Australia Should Mind Its Words and Deeds

 2022.2.16.

https://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/14389

Australia is now overstepping the bounds in its hostility towards the DPRK.

Australian Foreign Minister recently announced a statement picking on our country over the measures to enhance our national defense capabilities saying that they pose a threat to international peace and security and are contrary to global and regional interests in the rules-based Indo-Pacific.

The statement is run through with contents of anti-DPRK hostility that Australia is committed to maintaining and enforcing sanctions against our country until we refrain from further provocations, make a sustained commitment to talks with the U.S. and south Korea and abandon our nuclear weapons, other weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs in a complete, verifiable, and irreversible manner.

There is nothing new in the words and deeds of Australian politicians who have been inclined to hostility towards our Republic for no good reason, following in the footsteps of the U.S. What cannot be overlooked, however, is that such a statement was issued at such a point of time when “Cope North 22”, the combined air force exercise of the U.S., Australia and Japan is going on wildly at the Anderson air force base in Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, etc.

The U.S. Pacific Air Forces Public Affairs, as an answer to the question: What can be helped in terms of containing north Korea by the above-mentioned exercise, replied that while the exercise isn’t targeted at any one specific country, the end state is dissuading north Korea or any potential adversaries from military action, thus making it clear that it does aim at our country.

We have already made clear at home and abroad that our enhancement of national defense capabilities aims at building up war deterrence to deter the war itself and to safeguard our sovereign rights.

The test launches of our missiles this year did not cause any danger or harm to the security of our neighboring countries, not to mention Australia located thousands of kilometers away from us.

This fact notwithstanding, the Australian FM picked on our indisputable measures to enhance the national defense capabilities with such flowery words as global peace, security and the like, which constitutes an outrageous infringement upon our sovereign rights.

Australia is the very country that is instigating an arms race in the Asia-Pacific region, and is posing a grave threat to peace and security in the region, toeing the U.S. line.

Australia, having concocted the trilateral security partnership “AUKUS” in league with the U.S. and the U.K., has decided to purchase nuclear-powered submarine and submarine-launched “Tomahawk” cruise missile from the U.S. and the U.K. It also signed the Reciprocal Access Agreement with Japan in January, 2022, which has codified the deployment of Australian troops in Japan.

Voices of concern are issuing forth from China, Russia and other countries in the region that such moves of Australia may undermine the international regime of nuclear non-proliferation and foment the nuclear arms race in the Asia-Pacific region.

It became all the more impossible for us to remain an onlooker as Australian hostile acts coincide with the time when the U.S. is making a fuss of announcing additional unilateral sanction and convening UNSC emergency meeting on the pretext of our test launch of missiles.

Australia should not court misfortune with its own words and deeds.

 

Korea-Asia Association