CPRK Secretariat Hits S. Korean Authorities for Delayed Transfer of OPECON

 Pyongyang, October 30 (KCNA) -- The U.S. and south Korean puppet authorities, at the recent 46th annual security consultative meeting in Washington, agreed to put off the transfer of OPECON (wartime operation control), which had been scheduled by 2015, until security circumstances in around the Korean Peninsula and core military capabilities of the south Korean forces are provided.
    They also decided to keep the U.S.-south Korea Combined Forces Command and the U.S. 210th Fire Brigade, which had been planned to transfer to Phyongthaek, Kyonggi Province of south Korea, in Seoul and the area north of the River Han still before the OPECON transfer and continue their consultation on the proposed U.S.-Japan-south Korea sharing of military information.
    In this regard, the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea released information bulletin No. 1077 on Wednesday.
    Lurking behind such bargaining are the sinister intention of the south Korean puppet group to maintain their life through closer military tie-up with the U.S. and intensify the war and confrontation moves against the DPRK and the U.S. criminal intention to realize its policy of aggression on the DPRK and the strategy for domination over the Asia-Pacific with south Korea as a military bridgehead, the bulletin said, and went on:
    The south Korean puppet group's conspiracy with their American master for indefinite delay of the OPECON transfer is sparking off the surging wrath of all the countrymen as it is an intolerable disgrace of the nation and an unpardonable heinous treachery.
    Permanent abandonment of military sovereignty is little different from permanent abandonment of political and economic sovereignty. The south Korean people can not evade the disgrace as stateless people, subjugated to the U.S. in politics, economy and military aspects, for good.
    The world knows no such traitors as the south Korean puppet authorities who have abandoned their military sovereignty as a whole to outside forces.
    Those who agreed to indefinitely put off the transfer of OPECON will be condemned down through generations as second Ri Wan Yong and second Syngman-Rhee traitors.
    It is ridiculous that the south Korean puppet authorities would talk about "advanced state" though they are war servants deprived of military sovereignty, essence of national rights, by outside forces.
    We, together with all other Koreans, will never allow the postponing of OPECON transfer for aggression but take decisive counter-measures. -0-