Pyongyang,
August 18 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a
statement on Monday assailing the U.S. and the south Korean puppet
forces for kicking off Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises
against the DPRK.
The statement said:
The U.S. is becoming all the more undisguised in its criminal moves
to disturb peace and ignite a nuclear war through a vicious cycle of
tensions on the Korean peninsula and in the region.
The U.S. kicked off together with the south Korean puppet forces the
Ulji Freedom Guardian against the DPRK despite its repeated warnings
and serious concern of the international community.
The U.S. is staging ceaseless ever-larger scale joint military
exercises on the Korean peninsula and in its vicinity several times in a
year. They are grave military provocations against the DPRK and
unpardonable criminal acts of disturbing peace and security.
In order to prevent world public from focusing its criticism on the
aggressive nature and danger of the joint military exercises, the U.S.
is letting loose such sophism as describing them as "annual" and
"defensive" ones. They are, at the same time, terming countermeasures of
the DPRK "threat" and "provocation" like a thief crying "Stop the
thief!"
When the DPRK's principled stand and efforts to defuse tensions on
the Korean peninsula and create a peaceful environment drew support and
sympathy from those countries in the region at the recent ministerial
meeting of the ASEAN Regional Forum held in Myanmar, U.S. Secretary of
State Kerry at the talks between the diplomatic and defense chiefs of
the U.S. and Australia held two days later impudently blustered that the
just self-defensive steps of the DPRK are "wrecking stability in the
whole region" and sparking off "serious concern".
On Friday a deputy spokesperson of the U.S. State Department and a
spokesperson of the U.S. Defense Department vied with each other to make
such belligerent remarks that it would continue joint military
exercises while terming the tactical rocket test-fire of the DPRK a
"threat".
Despicable, indeed, is the attitude of the U.S. authorities
resorting to foolish deceptive artifice and intrigues to justify their
acts to perpetrate aggression and disturb peace.
It is an inveterate method of aggression of the U.S. to ignite a war while making profound confusing of right and wrong.
The U.S. has staged a total of more than 18 000 war maneuvers of
various forms for aggression in south Korea for more than six decades
since the 1950s, but it claims they have never posed any threat to the
north. But it contends that even a single test-fire and drill of
tactical guided-missiles for self-defence conducted by the Korean
People's Army to cope with them should be called into question. This is
the American-style standard and brigandish logic.
Joint military exercises staged in south Korea after the U.S.
announced its new defense strategy are assuming more aggressive nature
and their scale and frequency are steadily increasing, ranging from the
largest-ever joint landing drill aimed to "occupy Pyongyang" to a drill
for "breaking through the Military Demarcation Line" all of a sudden, a
drill for "restoring administrative units after occupying the north" and
a special operation drill for destroying the headquarters of the DPRK.
The U.S. announced that it would apply for the first time during the
exercises "tailored deterrence strategy" which calls for mounting a
preemptive strike by mobilizing all forms of armed forces including
nuclear weapons if a sign of "the use of nuclear weapons and missiles"
of someone is detected. This is another undisguised nuclear threat and
blackmail.
The danger of the tensions on the Korean peninsula at present,
together with the U.S. threat to mount a preemptive nuclear strike being
rapidly put into practice, lies in that it is disturbing global peace
and security going beyond the regional scale.
The joint military exercises being staged under the pretext of the
"threat" from the DPRK are strictly pursuant to the U.S. strategy for
world domination to bring down the social system in the DPRK and eye the
Asian continent with the Korean peninsula as a bridgehead. This is a
stark reality which no one can deny.
The U.S. armed buildup in Northeast Asia including the Korean
peninsula and the world's largest war maneuvers will spark off a new
arms race and Cold War.
The threat of one party is bound to trigger off retaliation from the
other party and a war is bound to break out in this course. This is a
lesson taught by history.
If one is weak though one is very honest-minded and just, one is
bound to fall victim to the strong and a genuine peace is protected only
when one is strong. This is the immutable logic reflected in the DPRK's
line of simultaneously developing the two fronts.
If the international community wants peace and stability in the
region and the rest of the world, it should recognize the validity and
inevitability of the self-defensive steps of the DPRK to protect the
security of the country and nation, and take issue with the U.S. and the
south Korean puppet forces' provocative nuclear war drills and hold
them in check.
As long as the nuclear war maneuvers go on to stifle the DPRK by
force, it will put its self-defensive counteraction on an annual and
regular basis and take steps at a higher stage in the future which no
one can predict. -0-
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