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KCNA Urges U.S. to Refrain from Rash Acts

KCNA

Release Date: 9/04/2003

Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- The United States is escalating its military moves to threaten the DPRK behind the screen of dialogue. The U.S. is staging various forms of military drills in and around the Korean peninsula while speeding up the missile testfire and the development of smaller nukes in real earnest.

It conducted a ground missile testfire at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Aug. 16 and plans to conduct a similar test in the Marshal! Islands in the near future.

The Bush administration has already mapped out a plan to take emergency measures for the use of nukes and issued an order to develop smaller nukes.

According to it, the research group under the U.S. Department of Energy will complete a design for manufacturing smaller nuclear bombs at the cost of 40-50 million US dollars in 2-3 years to come.

To this end the U.S. Senate abrogated a law that has prohibited the development of smaller nukes for the last decade, thus releasing the legal brake on the development of smaller nuclear bombs.

It is by no means fortuitous that El Baradei, general director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, complained as regards the U.S. development of smaller nukes that the U.S. is working to complete the development of nukes while demanding other countries not have access to those weapons.

What is serious is that missile testfire and the development of smaller nukes by the U.S. are aimed to launch preemptive nuclear attacks and armed invasion of the DPRK.

The U.S. undisguised military threat and blackmail behind the screen of dialogue go to clearly prove that the U.S. does not want a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula at all but only seeks a nuclear stand-off.

The U.S. attempt to browbeat somebody with a military threat is anachronistic and foolish as it does not know who its rival is.

The U.S. had better stop running amuck, properly understanding the firm will of the DPRK ready for both dialogue and war.