From the Korean National Peace Committee

 Warm greetings of the Korean National Peace Committee!

Entering this year, situation in and around the Korean peninsula is reaching to extremes due to the reckless military threat and war-provoking attempts of the U.S. and the ROK puppets against the DPRK.

On January 4 the U.S., showing its first maniac in the New Year by staging “joint combat firing drill” in alliance with the ROK puppet military gangsters, frantically perpetrated many war exercises under the various names of “exercise of containing chemical-biological-radioactive storing facilities”, “cyber alliance exercise”, “joint special operation exercise” and so on. And from January 15 it introduced nuclear anti-aircraft carrier the “Kal Vinson” and incited Japan and the ROK puppets to stage “joint maritime exercise” in the sea off Jeju islet for 4 days.

The U.S. spent a month of February with “combined naval exercise”, “winter-season joint drill”, “joint airborne drill”, “command communication drill” and others in alliance with the ROK puppet military gangsters. Not content with this, entering March it staged “joint airborne training exercise”, “combined tactical firing drill”, “combined air-to-air firing and air-to-ground bombing exercise” and joint airborne exercise “Ssangmae drill” which are kicked off under the pretext of large-scale joint military exercise “Freedom Shield”, and other outdoor mobile exercises, thus conducting extremely aggressive and provocative war exercises 24/7 for 48 rounds.

And ceaselessly reckless military exercises of the U.S., Japan and the ROK puppets with mobilization of the US nuclear strategic assets continued in April, too.

On April 2 the 3-party airborne exercise with participation of the US nuclear strategic bomber “B-52H” took place, just a few days later maritime exercise with the US nuclear anti-aircraft carrier “Theodore Roosevelt” conducted, and on April 18 “joint airborne infiltration exercise” staged. And it is due to be staged from April 12 to 26 the “combined joint formation drill” with participation of more than 100 warplanes of various kinds.

In August, 2023 heads of the U.S., Japan and the ROK met in Camp David in the outskirts of the Washington and made provocation of nuclear war towards the DPRK detailed, planned and official, and decided to make the 3-party military drill annual. In this context, all the above-mentioned military exercises being staged according to such commitment are clear “rehearsals” to translate the US nuclear war scenario against the DPRK into reality.

Entering this year the U.S. have staged military exercises for over 80 rounds with its vassal forces, and the ROK puppets for over 60 rounds independently. This is a clear testimony to the fact that who are the chief criminals in aggravating regional situation.

The DPRK armed forces conducted comprehensive tactical exercise simulating nuclear counterattack as a self-defensive measure to respond to the nuclear-war-provocation attempts of the U.S. and the ROK puppets, and sent a clear warning signal to the U.S. and the ROK unilaterally aggravating military tension around the Korean peninsula.

Despite such grave situation the U.S., talking about international response while finding fault with our just self-defensive measure as “violation of resolution” of the UNSC and as a “threat”, is making ridiculous attempts to put pressure on the DPRK.

On April 24 Kim Yo Jong, deputy department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, and head of external news in charge of Report Department of the Ministry of the Foreign Affairs of the DPRK issued a talk strongly denouncing and rejecting such brigandish filing-a-suit-first moves of the U.S..

Regarding detailed information of these talks you can refer via www.kcna.com, Korean Central News Agency.

The Korean National Peace Committee is fully convinced of that all the progressive peoples of the world aspiring after peace and stability of the Korean peninsula and the rest of the world would get a clear understanding of who are the chief criminals in worsening the regional situation of the Korean peninsula, and would render firm support to and solidarity with the Korean people in their just struggles for defending peace and stability of the Korean peninsula and the rest of the world.

With best regards,

 

Korean National Peace Committee