Korea Does What It is Determined to Do

Korea Does What It is Determined to Do

On December 12 last year Korea launched its artificial earth satellite Kwangmyongsong 3-2, drawing great international attention. Whereas many countries broadcast Korea’s success of the launch as a top news and congratulate it, some forces are making an issue of Korea’s launch from a dishonest motive.

In retrospect, the US and other imperialist forces, each time Korea launched an earth satellite, would bring the issue to the UN Security Council and kicked up a fuss about sanctions against the country.

When Korea announced it would launch Kwangmyongsong 2 in April 2009, the US and some other countries applied all sorts of groundless arguments and sophistries to the launch in an attempt to check it.

The armies of the US and south Korea staged various joint military exercises such as Key Resolve and Foal Eagle plunging the Korean peninsula into a hair-trigger situation. Describing Korea’s launch of the peaceful satellite as a “hostile act,” the Japanese authorities deployed huge forces including destroyers on and around Korea’s territorial waters and mobilized electronic reconnoitering equipment, threatening that Japan would intercept the satellite once it was launched.

To cope with this, Korea declared through a statement of the KPA General Staff that it would deal an immediate counter attack to the slightest move of interception of its peaceful satellite. It was a bombshell declaration to the forces hostile to Korea.

Korea launched Kwangmyongsong 2 by means of launch vehicle Unha 2 on April 5 as planned.

Many media organs of the world gave wide publicity to Korea’s launch under such titles as “Korea declared its success of the launch of its satellite Kwangmyongsong 2,” “Korea’s rocket flew into the space, causing a great sensation,” “Korea’s success of the launch is a double victory” and “Korea is a country which does what it is determined to do.”

Things went similarly over Kwangmyongsong 3-2.

Clamouring that Korea’s launch of Kwangmyongsong 3-2, a peaceful satellite, was a “violation of the resolution of the UN Security Council,” a “launch of a long-range missile with a military purpose” and a “provocative act,” the US, Japan, south Korea and some other countries deteriorated the situation in the Korean peninsula.

Nothing daunted, Korea launched its first application satellite in line with its plan for space development and successfully inserted it into orbit, demonstrating once again its disposition that it does what it is determined to do.

Satellite launches were not the only occasion when its disposition was exhibited.

From long time ago Korea demanded that US nuclear threat against it be removed and implied time and again that otherwise it might start equipping itself with a self-defensive nuclear deterrent. Notwithstanding this, the Bush administration officially included the country in the list of targets of nuclear preemptive strike. Then, Korea declared its full withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and conducted underground nuclear test on two occasions (2006 and 2009), proving that it had equipped itself with powerful nuclear deterrent.

Here is another example.

When the south Korean army, persisting in the illegitimate Northern Limit Line, announced its plan for gun-firing exercise in the territorial waters of the north in the West Sea of Korea in 2010, the Korean People’s Army solemnly warned that it would make an immediate annihilating counterstrike if a single spark fell on its territorial waters.

When south Korea provocatively carried out the exercise in disregard of the warning of the KPA, the KPA turned Yonphyong Island, the base of the provocation, into a sea of fire.

Now the US and its followers try to kick up another fuss about international sanctions over Korea’s launch of Kwangmyongsong 3-2 in the UN Security Council. But the international community gives the cold shoulder to them.

Although they kicked up such a fuss on several occasions, what did they gain from it? It only resulted in making Korea, a small country, join the clubs of the nuclear states and space powers which are few in number.

Korea does what it is determined to do. The international community clearly witnessed this through the launch of Kwangmyongsong 3-2.