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Statement of chief of KPA Panmunjom mission

KCNA

    Pyongyang, July 1 (KCNA) -- The chief of the Panmunjom mission of the Korean People's Army issued a statement on Tuesday. The statement says:
    A touch-and-go situation is now prevailing on the Korean peninsula owing to the U.S. undisguised policy to stifle the DPRK. Korea is at the crossroads of war or peace. It is, in fact, hardly possible to preserve the cease-fire in Korea by the unilateral efforts of the Korean People's Army side.
    On May 31 the U.S. side announced its "plan for arms buildup" aimed to equip its forces present in South Korea with new types of weapons, thus totally ditching paragraph 13 d of the armistice agreement which calls for ceasing the introduction into Korea of reinforcing combat aircraft, armored vehicles, weapons, and ammunition.
    According to the "plan" the U.S. will allot 11 billion U.S. dollars as military spending in a short span of time in a bid to massively introduce modern unmanned aircraft, armed helicopters, latest missiles, precision guided bombs, infantry combat vehicles, electronic command system, etc. into South Korea.
    Such massive military reinforcement proves that the U.S. preparations for attack on the DPRK have reached the final stage under the new strategy of "preemptive strike", instead of the "deterrence" strategy which has been so far pursued.
    At the same time, the U.S. is seeking to impose "sea and air blockade" and lay an "international siege network" against the DPRK by instigating its allies, including Japan, in disregard of paragraph 15 of the Armistice Agreement, which stipulates a ban on blockade of any kind in Korea. This action is aggravating the situation.
    Such military reinforcement, massive concentration of armed forces and blockade against one side of the two signatories to the AA in gross violation of it will mean a war in fact.
    Dark clouds of war are gathering to hang over the Korean peninsula as the days go by.
    The U.S. has already begun relocating its forces in South Korea to areas south of the River Han in a bid to save the forces from the KPA artillery firing range and create conditions for making a preemptive strike at the DPRK any time.
    However, there is no place in South Korea for the U.S. forces to escape from strike of the KPA.
    Any possible war in Korea will not be such a limited unilateral war as that fought in Afghanistan and Iraq but the fiercest and hardest fought war, life and death battles unprecedented in the world.
    The Korean people have steadily made full preparations to cope with such a grave war, well aware of it, experiencing all sorts of misfortune and hardships caused by the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK for the past scores of years.
    The DPRK sternly warns the U.S. that it will be held wholly responsible for the irrevocable serious consequences to be entailed by its complete abrogation of the AA and horrible disasters to be inflicted upon the innocent South Koreans by its reckless war action, in particular.
    If the U.S. side applies sanctions against the DPRK and conducts sea and air blockade against it anywhere and starts bolstering up troops in and around the Korean peninsula, the KPA side will promptly regard it as a complete breach of the AA by the U.S. side and will immediately take strong and merciless retaliatory measures against the infringement upon the DPRK's sovereignty by mobilizing all its potentials, completely free from the binding force of the AA.