U.S. – The Biggest Sponsor of Terrorism

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/15168

 2022.5.31.

Recently, the U.S. State Department has once again staged a trite and boring farce of re-designating the DPRK, Iran, Syria, Cuba and Venezuela as the “countries not cooperating fully in the fight against terrorism”.

The U.S. which is being called the “hotbed of terrorism”, “kingpin of terrorism”, is rating everything other countries do in their efforts for counter-terrorism as if it is the “judge of terrorism”. This constitutes the height of impudence and the mockery of the international society.

Terrorism is the means of existence for the U.S., the gangster state.

The U.S. is officially recognized by the international society as the No. 1 sponsor of terrorism and the world’s biggest criminal country of state terrorism.

The Korean War in the 1950s, the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s, invasion of Grenada and Panama in the 1980s, the Gulf War and the War in the Balkans in the 1990s, the Afghan War in 2001, the Iraqi War in 2003, etc. All of these wars provoked by the U.S. were large-scale acts of state terrorism which took the lives of tens of millions of the civilians.

During the 1960s and 1970s of the last century alone, the U.S. committed numerous assassination and terrorist acts targeting government figures and individuals of other countries.

It is well-known fact the U.S. is behind the following incidents; the assassination plot of president Soekarno of Indonesia in the 1950s, the ousting of Mossadegh government from Iran, the murder of Lumumba, the first prime minister of DR Congo in 1961, the murder of Allende, the former president of Chile, in the 1970s, the assassination of  Ratsimandrava, leader of Madagascar in 1975, the explosion of the plane with President Machel of Mozambique aboard in the mid-1980s, the suspicious death of Chavez, the former president of Venezuela, hundreds of attempted assassination plots against the Cuban Leader Fidel Castro, etc.

The U.S. has conducted the “counter-terrorism” taking it as its state policy with the incident of September 11, 2001 as momentum, but it has further increased terrorism without terminating it.

The international society has branded the Afghan War and the Iraqi War – the wars provoked by the U.S. under the pretext of “counter-terrorism” – as overt state-sponsored criminal acts. It is also expressing strong opposition to the high-handedness of the U.S. which uses the “counter-terrorism” as a tool for interference into internal affairs of other countries.

At dawn on January 3, 2020, the U.S. had used its drone “MQ-9A Reaper” to assassinate Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds army of Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guard, at the Baghdad international airport. This is a typical example which shows the extent to which the U.S. criminal acts of terrorism reached.

The UN rapporteur for extra judicial killing has pointed out in the report released in July 2020 that the assassination of Soleimani is illegal and constitutes a wanton violation of the UN Charter.

On January 3, 2022, the Iranian president, in his speech delivered on the occasion of the 2nd anniversary of the death of Soleimani, asserted that the U.S. should be put on trial of the International Court of Justice for the assassination of Soleimani and get deserved court judgment.

The gangster-like and impudent terrorism by the U.S. is giving rise to the vicious cycle of terrorism ceaselessly taking place in every part of the world.