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U.S. Reckless Arms Build-up Denounced

KCNA

    Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) -- U.S. Congress recently made a final approval of the bill on military expenditure for the fiscal 2004 amounting to more than 401 billion dollars and U.S. President Bush signed it. In this regard Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article says:
    The U.S. approved record-breaking defense budget for the fiscal 2004 is a blatant challenge to the trend of the times in the new century towards independence, peace and disarmament.
    And it is a criminal move to chill the unanimous desire and aspiration of humankind to live in a new stable and peaceful world free from any danger of nuclear war and arms race.
    What merits a serious attention is that the new bill lifted a ban on the research into low-yield nukes and those capable of penetrating underground, which has been in force for scores of years.
    The bellicose Bush ruling quarters keen on hegemony and world domination are going mad with the arms build-up, pursuing the adventurous line of strength and iron-fisted policy in contravention of the aspiration of humankind, world public opinion and the trend of the times.
    The U.S. defense budget for the fiscal 2001 reached 310 billion U.S. dollars much bigger than that of the Clinton administration. And its defense budget for the fiscal 2002 was 343 billion U.S. dollars, 33 billion dollars bigger than that. The defense budget for the fiscal 2003 ran into over 379 billion U.S. dollars. This is equivalent to 40 percent of the total amount of the world military expenditure.
    The strategic aim sought by the U.S. in its madcap arms buildup is to retain its military supremacy in a bid to stifle those anti-imperialist independent countries incurring its displeasure by means of military intervention, military terrorism and war, seize major areas of natural resources and military strategic importance, establish an American-style iron-fisted order in the world and thus build a unipolar world dominated by it.
    This U.S. arms build-up may spark the second worldwide arms race as this policy is bound to lead to arms buildup, military intervention and war of aggression.