Report of Korean Central News Agency
Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- The situation on the Korean Peninsula is deteriorating so rapidly that an armed clash may break out quite contrary to the desire of the DPRK for the peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue. In this regard the Korean Central News Agency is authorized to release a report today. The report says:While clamoring for the "peaceful settlement" and "multilateral talks," the United States is stepping up the DPRK-targeted war preparations in full swing.
This is evidenced by the fact that the U.S. Department of Defense is making a final examination of what it calls a "serious plan" designed to decide on a scenario for military attacks on the DPRK.
The purpose of the war scenario to be carried out mainly by the U.S. Pacific Command and strategic command is to round off the preparations to strike the whole area of the DPRK all at once within a few hours after they received an order to invade it.
In particular, the strategic command is directly involved in the scenario and various war methods such as secret attacks of the special operational force are to be introduced to preempt surprise assaults on the major objects and nuclear facilities of the DPRK. Timed to coincide with this, the U.S. Forces present in South Korea together with the South Korean military worked out a "contingency plan," a war scenario to invade the DPRK, and began making preparations to put it into practice.
The main mode of carrying out the war scenario is to strike the front and the rear of the DPRK simultaneously with the mobilization of all the latest military hardware and information system tested in the war in Afghanistan so as to contain the DPRK's retaliatory capability.
This was debated in the main at the South Korea-U.S. "annual security consultative meeting" in Washington D.C. on December 20, last year and a "military committee" meeting. U.S. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld disclosed that a plan to cope with an "event of contingency" was being worked out over the nuclear issue of North Korea.
The recently worked out war scenario different from the past war scenarios to invade the DPRK is mainly characterized by the fact that all the military actions are designed on the premise that the U.S. Forces will mount preemptive attacks on the DPRK on the basis of the increased capability of forestalling attack through the modernization of the combat equipment and the drastic beefing up of the U.S. Forces in South Korea. Under the plan the South Korea-based U.S. Forces are pushing ahead with the massive arms buildup and reorganization of the armed forces in a bid to increase the war capabilities against the DPRK and staging frantic joint tactical exercises of various forms with South Korea.
According to it, Japan, too, made the Korean war a fait accompli and is preparing an "operation to evacuate Japanese residents in South Korea" in a bid to cope with it.
This operation which the Japanese Prime Minister will directly look after will be carried out with the help of the U.S. troops. It is aimed to evacuate more than 30,000 Japanese in South Korea within 70 hours from the start of the war.
To this end, Japan is putting warplanes and warships of the "Self-Defence Forces" on standby.
On the basis of such war preparations, former and present high-ranking officials of the U.S. military are asserting that in case the DPRK reprocesses the spent fuel rods, the U.S. should consider it as zero hour for its preemptive attack.
To this end, the ultra-large aircraft carrier "Kitty Hawk" and warships belong to the seventh fleet of the U.S. navy which were supposed to sail toward the Gulf waters versed their voyage to appear in the waters off the Korean Peninsula on Jan. 25.
According to the war scenario for invasion of the DPRK, fighters based on this carrier have the mission to secure the command of the air within 2-3 days.
Such dangerous military movements on the part of the U.S. behind the curtain of dialogue clearly prove that they are aimed to make a surprise attack on the DPRK.
The prevailing situation indicates that the U.S. "national security strategy" which calls for preemptive attacks on the DPRK has entered the phase of its implementation.
After all, the U.S. loudmouthed "multiple talks" are nothing but a smokescreen to deceive the DPRK and the international community and slacken their vigilance in a bid to make a surprise preemptive attack on the DPRK.
The DPRK is fully prepared to cope with the U.S. military attack.
The self-defensive step to be taken by the DPRK unavoidably when the U.S. preemptive attack is considered imminent cannot but involve an unlimited use of means corresponding to what the U.S. mobilized.
