Disturber and Wrecker of Peace

Disturber and Wrecker of Peace The Korean people, like other peace-loving nations of the world, do not want a war, a synonym for all kinds of misfortunes and pains, calamities and death. However, the United States is going against the aspiration and wish of the Korean people. It illegally occupied the southern part of Korea 67 years ago and divided its territory and people into two. Now it is hell-bent on starting a new war in Korea. This year alone it consistently built up tensions on the Korean peninsula by mobilizing for action deployment in south Korea the military personnel and hardware from its mainland and overseas military bases, while launching a series of war rehearsals targeted for the DPRK. Typical of them were the US-led war games Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, which involved large troops over 200 000 strong and state-of-the-art war equipment and were conducted in south Korea between late February and April. The US and south Korean military authorities, in the disguise of the exercises for defence or annual event, conducted military drills for the DPRK-targeted nuclear preemptive strikes on the ground, in the air or on the sea, such as landing and assault operations. The war hawks in the US and south Korea hauled into south Korea en masse military hardware, such as surface-to-surface missiles, MLRS rockets, M1-A2 Abrams tanks, Striker armoured vehicles, special mine-proof armoured vehicles, and so on. Their reckless acts threatened peace and security and further aggravated the tension on the Korean peninsula. The joint military exercise Ulji Freedom Guardian staged from August 20 to 31 was a north-targeted trial war through and through in scale and nature. In the exercise were mobilized over 30 000 GIs and 56 000 south Korean troops, hundreds of thousands of south Korean civilians, military personnel of different countries, which had dispatched their troops to Korea during the Korean war (June 1950–July 1953) under the cloak of the UN Forces, and sophisticated military hardware. Prior to the start of the exercise the US Secretary of the Army flew into south Korea, examined the military preparations and made tours to the Panmunjom area, reminding everybody of the US presidential envoy Dulles’ tour to the area along the 38th Parallel on the eve of the past Korean war. The first stage of the military exercises was to examine the war preparedness of the aggressive troops, and the second one to commence a war based on closely thought-out war scenario—special warfare against the supreme leadership, preemptive strikes on nuclear and missile bases, “civil operations” prerequisite to occupying the northern half of Korea, all these aimed at surprise attack against the DPRK. The US-led joint military exercises staged in all parts of south Korea are nothing but a grave challenge to the all-people aspiration for peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and also revelation of dangerous and reckless attempt of aggressive war to plunge the Korean nation into the holocaust of a nuclear war. The US has so far repeatedly expressed that it has no hostile feelings toward the DPRK. It manifested to the world through the DPRK-USA Joint Communiqué signed in October 2000, September 19 Joint Statement made public in the six-party talks in 2005 and other agreements that it would recognize the sovereignty of the DPRK, strive to coexist peacefully, and abandon its acts of aggression and hostility against the DPRK. However, present reality shows that the United States is the main culprit in undermining peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and the root cause, provoker of war. Dialogue is incompatible with confrontation, and peace with war. Nothing can conceal the true colours of the US, peace-wrecker and mastermind of war.