Pyongyang, September 25 (KCNA) -- An article of Kang Chol Su, section chief of the DPRK Institute of Enemy State Studies, titled "The 'decisive centre of collective defence' will be a decisive target of collective punishment" was published on September 25.
The following is the full text of the article:
The U.S. is more openly revealing its gangster-like nature to use the ROK as its key base for implementing its hegemonic strategy and as its mercenaries in the regional conflict.
At a recent "ROK-U.S. international security seminar", the commander of U.S. forces in the ROK termed the ROK a "decisive centre for collective defence," asserting that the security on the Korean peninsula is directly linked with the stability of Northeast Asia, the western hemisphere and the whole Pacific.
He talked about the redesigning of the security of the Korean peninsula, stressing the need for the ROK and the U.S. to jointly cope with the threat from outside the Korean peninsula.
This is a clearer manifestation of the attempt to completely discard the deceptive veil of "defense of the ROK," which has so far been used as the justification for the existence of the U.S.-ROK alliance, and to tie the ROK to the aggressive "collective defense" system for implementing the strategy for world hegemony.
The "collective defense" is a keynote of the present U.S. administration's "National Defence Strategy". It is a brigandish doctrine of aggression aimed at driving its allies to any strife-torn areas in the world under the pretext of "joint response to a common threat".
The fact that the military value of the ROK has been promoted to "decisive center of collective defense" means that the whole territory of the ROK will play the role of a key base for the U.S. in fighting the overseas aggressive war and the ROK's forces will be deployed as first mercenaries, earlier than any others, in any place indicated by their American master.
Getting clearer is the reason why the U.S. has openly revealed its intention to use the geopolitical position of the ROK for carrying out its strategy for hegemony outside the Korean peninsula under a "upside down map," highlighting the ROK's position as a fixed aircraft carrier for deterring the DPRK, China and Russia and a dagger in the heart of Asia.
In fact, the U.S. attempt to place the ROK at the centre of the "collective defence" system has been put into speedy practice to pose real danger.
The U.S. has reduced its forces in Europe and other regions, but deployed MQ-9 Reaper drone unit for strategic purposes and more F-16 fighters in the ROK. It even seeks to deploy the multi-domain mobile task force. This is a part of its practical design to involve the ROK in the "collective defence" system.
This has been proved by the fact that the U.S. has enhanced the joint operation system and integrated operation capacity by involving the ROK forces in such multi-national military exercises in the Asia-Pacific region as RIMPAC and Pacific Vanguard conducted far beyond the Korean peninsula and its vicinity, not content with Ulji Freedom Shield and other joint military drills with the ROK and Japan.
Shackled by the U.S. "collective defense" system, the ROK is playing a suicidal role as top-class war servant of the U.S. by willingly accepting to increase its defense cost, build nuclear submarines, introduce multi-domain operational system and integrated missile defense system, massively purchase U.S. war hardware and build and overhaul U.S. warships, all of which are transcending its "defense requirements."
The U.S. strategy of "modernizing the alliance," which is being carried out on a global scale, beyond the boundary of the Korean peninsula, under the signboard of "collective defense", and sycophancy of the ROK blindly following it are exposing the security of the Korean peninsula, the region and the world to graver danger.
The ROK, which will play the role of a "decisive center for collective defense," has turned into the most obvious cancer-like entity that stokes the instability of the region and the world, and this will inevitably provoke the heightened vigilance and strengthened readiness of the countries and the region regarding it as a threat.
The DPRK, which borders the ROK, has already made full preparations in anticipation of such developments and clarified its resolute stand to mercilessly deter and frustrate any challenge doing harm to the sphere of its security by dint of its superpowerful military muscle.
The ROK, which has emerged as a "decisive center for collective defense," pursuant to the U.S. strategic interests, will become a decisive target of collective punishment. -0-
