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KCNA Slams U.S. Northeast Asia Strategy

KCNA

    Pyongyang, December 16 (KCNA) -- The United States is clinging to a new military strategy to put Northeast Asia under its domination to meet its interests. It is working hard to relocate its troops in south Korea at an early date, push forward a massive "arms buildup plan" on the Korean peninsula and speed up the establishment of the missile defense system involving south Korea, Taiwan and Japan in real earnest. These fresh military developments are indicative of the U.S. scheme to escalate the military standoff on the Korean peninsula and extend the sphere of operations of the U.S. troops in south Korea to the rest of Northeast Asia.
    This can not but arouse high vigilance of the people in the region as these are very dangerous developments which may render the overall situation in Northeast Asia unstable and escalate tensions there.
    The U.S. Northeast Asia military strategy is a key link in the whole chain of its strategy to put the world under its domination. Policy-makers of the U.S. styling itself the world's only superpower after the end of the Cold War designated Middle East and Northeast Asia as major targets in realizing its ambition for world domination.
    The U.S. claims that it has laid a springboard from which to put the Middle East under its control after occupying Iraq, a sovereign state. It is now concentrating its efforts on carrying out its Northeast Asia military strategy. It is because there exist in this region the DPRK demonstrating the might of Songun politics and big powers advocating the multi-polarization of the world challenging the U.S. view on value of the uni-polar world. It was against this backdrop that the U.S. had already expanded the radius of the military operation of the U.S. and Japan as far as the Taiwan Strait in the "U.S.-Japan Joint Security Declaration" in 1996. It is now working hard to expand the sphere of operation of the U.S. troops in south Korea.
    The relocation of the U.S. troops in south Korea is now under way within the framework of the U.S. Northeast Asia strategy.
    It is by no means fortuitous that the October 11th issue of the Chinese People's Daily reported that the U.S. is likely to expand the operation radius of its troops in south Korea as far as Taiwan in China, saying that this may meet the rebuff of China and Russia and the Voice of Russia reported on December 2 that the U.S. keeps going against Russia and China, saying that it may mobilize its troops stationed in south Korea for operations not only on the Korean peninsula but for those against other countries of Northeast Asia in the near future.
    This new strategy of the U.S. is aimed to establish an unchallenged domination over Northeast Asia through a steady escalation of tensions there. This, therefore, will inevitably spark off confrontation and conflict in this region as this would block the settlement of other disputes in the region including the Taiwanese problem, to say nothing of the Korean problem. The U.S. refusal to take a bold decision to drop its anachronistic hostile policy toward the DPRK, the policy which spawned the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. and its act of hamstringing a peaceful solution to the Taiwanese problem are part of the U.S. strategy of steadily escalating the tensions in the Northeast Asian region. This, therefore, runs diametrically counter to the common interests of the countries in the region.
    The U.S. Northeast Asia military strategy swimming against the trend of the times is bound to go bankrupt, censured by the people in this region and all other progressive people in the world.