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KCNA Accuses U.S. of Harassing Peace and Stability on Korean Peninsula

KCNA

    Pyongyang, December 8 (KCNA) -- This year the United States has steadily escalated arms buildup and adventurous war maneuvers behind the scene of dialogue going against the desire of the world community for a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula, seriously threatening peace and bringing the situation to an extreme pitch of tension. It worked out operation plans to invade the DPRK one after another and improved them.
    From the outset of the year the U.S. finally examined what it called "discreet plan", a plan for a military attack on the DPRK, a provocation to it.
    Timed to coincide with this, the U.S. troops in south Korea together with the south Korean military drew an "emergency plan", a war scenario to invade the north and began preparations for its implementation.
    A particular mention should be made of the fact that the U.S. worked out and published the "Operation Plan 5030", a new plan for an attack on the north. It envisages so-called "modern operation methods" including preemptive attack with up-to-date precision weapons, "shock and horror" operations and "surgical operation assault".
    In the meantime, the U.S. forces command in south Korea announced even an "arms buildup plan" that calls for spending 11 billion U.S. dollars in three years.
    This year witnessed the U.S. ever-intensified military moves against the DPRK to carry out these adventurous war plans to invade the north.
    To begin with, the U.S. massively amassed forces for mounting a preemptive attack on the north in and around south Korea.
    Pursuant to the strategy for preemptive attacks, the U.S, introduced "F-117" stealth fighters to south Korea and deployed "B-52" and "B-1" strategic bombers in Guam for actions against the DPRK.
    The U.S. Department of Defense reorganized the 8th U.S. Army stationed in south Korea into a field army system, putting huge U.S. forces in Northeast Asia in the sphere of the military operation of the 8th Army Command. It set up the 9th U.S. Theatre Army Command in Japan, enabling the U.S. forces there to directly participate in the military operation on the Korean peninsula.
    U.S. marines, the U.S. 7th and 3rd Fleets in Okinawa, the U.S. 7th Air Force in south Korea and the U.S. 5th Air Force in Japan were reorganized as "forefront units" for preemptive attacks.
    The U.S. announced a plan to form new "expeditionary offensive forces" which can let the marines land in any area while making missile attacks on it after inducting four warships such as Aegis ship equipped with "Tomahawk" cruise missiles, cruiser, offensive nuclear submarine to the amphibious assault unit in Sasebo base in Japan.
    This year the U.S. has pushed the situation to an extreme pitch of tension under the pretext of the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula. It frequently staged large nuclear war exercises under the simulated conditions of an actual war, while massively beefing up its forces in the region.
    Involved in the large joint war exercises codenamed "Foal Eagle" and "the reception, staging, onward-movement and integration" staged from March 4 to April 2. were at least 200,000 troops including U.S. forces in south Korea, south Korean forces and U.S. reinforcements and huge war means including carriers.
    The U.S. hurled a platoon of the combat unit of the U.S. Army equipped with latest precision weapons into a war drill that started in south Korea on August 1 to enable it to get familiar with terrain and other conditions of the Korean peninsula.
    The first overseas exercise of the first rapid strike brigade of the U.S. Army took place in south Korea. "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises as big as the "Team Spirit" joint military exercises in scale were staged across south Korea from August 18 to 29.
    Against this backdrop U.S. bellicose elements made tours of south Korea one on the heels of the other during which they worked out a timetable for a war against the DPRK, blustering that "it is necessary to get ready for the second Korean war including a military attack".
    U.S. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld flew into south Korea in last November to finally examine on the spot the readiness of the U.S. troops in south Korea to fight a war against the DPRK.
    It is entirely thanks to the peace-loving stand and patient efforts of the DPRK that a new war did not break out on the Korean peninsula this year despite such tense military situation.