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U.S. Escalated Arms Buildup Assailed

KCNA

    Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- The DPRK will further increase its physical deterrent force to cope with the U.S. increasing threat, stated a spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry in an answer given to the question put by KCNA on Dec. 27 as regards the U.S. more undisguised moves to bolster the military equipment of the U.S. forces in south Korea. It went on:
    The U.S. keeps reinforcing and updating the military hardware of its forces present in south Korea, while massively shipping high-tech weapons into the Korean peninsula.
    From the outset of the year the U.S. additionally inducted over 10 fighter bombers and U-2 high-altitude strategic reconnaissance planes into its forces in south Korea and Japan and deployed carrier "Carl Vinson" in the waters off the Korean peninsula. It let six F-117 stealth bombers and a wing of F-15E fighters and one battalion of a mechanized unit stay in south Korea after participating in "Foal Eagle" joint military exercise and RSOI
    It also deployed in south Korea a Shadow 200 unmanned tactical plane, which, equipped with military hardware, is capable of providing information gathered through aerial espionage and new PAC-3 interceptor missile system capable of striking ballistic and cruise missiles and planes.
    According to the "arms buildup plan" announced by the commander of the U.S. forces in south Korea in May last, the U.S. will spend 11 billion U.S. dollars for beefing up the military hardware of its forces there for 3 years till 2006.
    Such arms buildup is casting a darker shadow on the prospect of solving the nuclear issue as it is quite contrary to the present process of dialogue to seek a peaceful solution to the issue.
    It is not confined to this only.
    The U.S. attempt to turn its forces in south Korea into a "Northeast Asian regional force" targeted not only against the DPRK but against the countries surrounding the Korean peninsula, is rendering the situation on the Korean peninsula and in the region more unstable and tenser.
    If the U.S. calculates it can bring the DPRK to its knees through aggression and military threat as it did other countries, it will bring about grave consequences.