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U.S. escalated moves to increase tensions will lead to its self-destruction

Korean Central News Agency

Release Date: 7/25/2003

Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea today issued a statement to the press 50 years after the conclusion of the Korean Armistice Agreement. The statement says:

50 years have passed since the conclusion of the Korean Armistice Agreement.

But durable peace has not yet settled on the Korean Peninsula in the 21st century, but the danger of a nuclear war is increasing on the peninsula. This is entirely attributable to the U.S. military presence in South Korea and its anachronistic hostile policy toward the DPRK.

Over the last 50 years the U.S. has systematically violated and ditched the AA, rendering the situation on the peninsula strained.

It deliberately led to breakdown the Geneva Conference on a peaceful settlement of the Korean issue convened under the AA. And it has massively shipped into South Korea modern combat equipment including nuclear weapons in violation of the AA, ceaselessly stepping up the preparations for another Korean War.

It is nearly three decades since the 30th un general assembly session adopted a resolution on the pullback of all foreign troops from South Korea. but, the U.S. has since then kept its military presence in South Korea and posed constant threat to the DPRK through dangerous war gambles such as �gTeam Spirit�h and �gFoal Eagle.�h

After the emergence of the Bush administration the hostile policy pursued by the U.S. to stifle the DPRK reached an extremely dangerous stage. As a consequence, a touch-and-go situation is prevailing in the Korean Peninsula.

The present U.S. administration announced an �garms buildup plan�h to equip the U.S. forces in South Korea with weapons of the latest type. It is now working hard to put �gsea and air blockade�h against the DPRK into practice and loudly talking about provocative �gOperation Plan 5030.�h

That is a blatant violation of the AA and a war action to invade the DPRK.

The U.S. seeks a sinister political purpose in working hard to bring the situation to the brink of war at any cost in defiance of the unanimous demands of the DPRK government and the international community for a peaceful negotiated settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula.

It is trying to complicate the nuclear issue that should be settled through the talks between the DPRK and the U.S. and increase South Korea's dependence on its security umbrella in a bid to put down the ubiquitous anti-Americanism in South Korea and demands for U.S. military pullback.

The present U.S. administration is at pains to internationalise the nuclear issue that should find a fundamental solution through the direct negotiations between the DPRK and the U.S. in an effort to block any improvement in the inter-Korean and DPRK-Japan relations, sell more weapons to South Korea and gain support from the U.S. military complexes and thus get favorable returns in the elections to be held next year.

The aforesaid hostile acts of the U.S. compel the DPRK to build up a strong war deterrent force.

We know well that the U.S., which is ditching one provision of the AA after another, intends to use any ultra-modern weapons on the peninsula.

The DPRK will consider the ultra-modern weapons the new conservatives of the U.S. try to use as tactical nuclear weapons, which compels the DPRK to make as powerful weapons as them.

The U.S. should know well that its escalated moves to aggravate the situation on the peninsula will lead it to self-destruction.