Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)
released a report on March 24, clarifying the justice of the decision
for nullifying the Korean Armistice Agreement (AA).
The first of the three-part report said as follows:
The Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army announced that it
would totally nullify AA at the most crucial time when the nation is in
fierce confrontation with the U.S., staking the destiny of the country
and the nation. This was a just counteraction for self-defence to cope
with the evermore undisguised U.S. moves to stifle the DPRK, and a
historic and bold decision to push forward the efforts for the country's
reunification and regional peace and stability.
The U.S. has abused AA as the leverage for pursuing its hostile
policy toward the DPRK for nearly six decades. Its criminal acts turned
the Korean Peninsula into the biggest hotspot in the world and a theater
where a war may break out any moment.
The U.S. in collusion with hostile forces made up of riff-raffs has
posed serious threats to the DPRK's sovereignty through the persistent
and vicious military blackmail and economic blockade.
The Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military drills staged by the
U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces were the actual nuclear war
rehearsals that activated nuclear strike means including B-52 capable of
carrying nuclear warheads and nuclear-armed submarine.
This is a brazen-faced violation and encroachment on AA and all the
north-south agreements and an unpardonable provocation and infringement
on the DPRK's sovereignty and supreme interests.
The unprecedentedly acute and serious state of political and
military emergency prevailing on the Korean Peninsula urged the DPRK to
terminate at an early date the geopolitical disaster, neither a war nor
peace, which has lasted century after century on this land, and take a
bold decision to guarantee the national sovereignty and regional
stability.
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The decision to nullify AA was a countermeasure for self-defense
taken by the DPRK as it felt no need to be bound to the agreement which
exists in form only owing to the U.S.
It is illogical for the hostile forces including the U.S. to build
up the public opinion critical of the DPRK's "violation" over its
toughest countermeasure while asserting that "AA can not be unilaterally
dissolved as it was agreed and signed with mutual agreement".
AA is not one that requires bilateral agreement to be rendered
invalid and it will be naturally nullified if one side does not abide by
it.
AA has long been invalid due to the systematic scrapping of it by
the U.S. and the unreasonable behavior of the UN Security Council that
backed the U.S. moves for the last six decades.
When AA was concluded on July 27, 1953, at the end of the 500
odd-day heated talks, the attention and expectation of all the Korean
people and peace-loving people of the world focused on its paragraph 60.
The implementation of paragraph 60 was a key issue in realizing the
country's reunification and contributing to the Asian and global peace
as it called for withdrawing all foreign troops from Korea, removing the
root cause of a war and solving the Korean problem peacefully.
Nevertheless, the U.S. signed the "mutual defense treaty" with south
Korea according to its already worked-out scenario on August 8, 1953,
when the ink on the deal was barely dry, and legalized its military
presence in south Korea. Therefore, it nullified paragraph 60 on the
removal of all foreign armed forces.
Paragraph 13 d of AA banned the introduction of operational planes,
armed vehicles, weapons and munitions from outside Korea.
The U.S. unilaterally declared the abrogation of paragraph 13 d of
AA on June 21, 1957 and systemically introduced huge modern military
hardware and over 1 000 nuclear weapons of different kinds into south
Korea. As a result, south Korea has turned into the biggest nuclear
outpost and nuclear arsenal in the Far East.
The U.S. deliberately repealed or violated the paragraphs of AA that
stand in the way of its preparations for a new war in Korea and
destroyed all the mechanisms overseeing the implementation of AA.
The U.S. serious breach of AA rendered defunct sentences related to
the Military Armistice Commission i.e. from points 19 to 35 of paragraph
2 as well as those related to the Neutral Nations Supervisory
Commission i.e. from points 36 to 50 of the same paragraph.
The U.S. has made ceaseless military provocations against the DPRK
free from any legal and institutional restrictions and binding force.
This is evidenced by the fact that the cases of violation of AA
totaled hundreds of thousands entailing hundreds of meetings of the
Military Armistice Commission.
AA was able to exist though in form thanks to the DPRK's exercise of utmost self-restraint and patience.
The DPRK advanced lots of proposals for ending the state of
armistice and setting up mechanism for ensuring durable peace on the
Korean Peninsula. They included the one for concluding a peace treaty
between the DPRK and the U.S. (in the 1970s), the one for holding
tripartite talks including south Korea in the DPRK-U.S. talks (in the
1980s), the one for setting up new mechanism of ensuring peace (in the
1990s), the one for pushing for the issue of declaring the end of war at
the talks of the countries concerned in AA (the Declaration for
Development of North-South Relations, Peace and Prosperity on Oct. 4 in
2007) and the one for promptly starting the talks to replace AA with a
peace treaty on the 60th anniversary of the start of the Korean war (the
statement of the spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry on Jan. 11 in
2010).
The U.S., however, ignored and turned down all these proposals.
It has never abided by AA but pursued a war, not peace.
It was absolutely unacceptable for the DPRK in the light of the
supreme interests of the sovereign state to remain bound to the
perfunctory document thrown away like a pair of old shoes by the other
belligerent party.
A war breaks out unexpectedly.
The DPRK was compelled to take a substantial countermeasure of
nullifying AA to defend the security of the country and the gains of the
revolution and secure the sovereignty of the Korean nation in the face
of the U.S. threat of aggression getting more outrageous not restrained
by AA. -0-
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