KCNA blasts U.S. "tailored containment" strategy
Pyongyang, January 29 (KCNA) -- The Korean Peninsula is now exposed to a grave threat posed by the U.S. all-out offensive to pressurize the DPRK. It is attributable to the U.S. extremely hostile policy toward the DPRK to isolate and stifle the independent sovereign state, and the "tailored containment" strategy, its product, in particular.This is a very dangerous strategy as it blatantly challenges the unbiased public opinion calling for a fair solution to the nuclear issue through dialogue and negotiations. This should never be allowed as it is aimed to wreck peace and security in Asia including the Korean Peninsula and the rest of the world, the most hideous crime.
The U.S. "tailored containment" strategy toward the DPRK is, in a word, designed to isolate and stifle the DPRK by putting it under the siege of closely coordinated international sanctions and pressure in political, economic, military, diplomatic and all other aspects.
This strategy is also dubbed a "serpent" strategy as it is to be carried out in the way a serpent does, ie swallowing up the object after strangling it.
Referring to it, the South Korean KBS reported on December 29 last year that the U.S. seems to have what it calls a "tailored containment" strategy in the making to escalate its economic and political pressure on North Korea. The U.S. came out with the operation to destroy North Korea in retaliation against its brinkmanship tactics. It is the core of the "tailored containment" strategy to escalate the economic and political pressure to the extremes and push North Korea to collapse.
As reported, the U.S. strategy is aimed to destabilize the system in the DPRK and destroy it, while refusing to recognize its political system.
It is a conclusion made by the bush administration that there is no need to keep the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework unless the former collapses and therefore, it should be scrapped and it is necessary to work out the second scenario for the collapse of North Korea.
The Bush administration has worked to scrap the AF since it took office. It began spreading the rumour of "north's collapse", a fiction recorded in history, and escalated its hostile policy toward the DPRK after declaring it as a principal enemy. In the "state of union message" delivered at congress on January 30 last year Bush openly listed the DPRK as part of "an axis of evil".
Later the U.S. declared the DPRK as a target of its preemptive nuclear attack.
International community was unanimous in rebuffing the U.S. talk about an "axis of evil" as each nation wanted its vital rights and interests to be protected and sought its own strategic aim.
This could not but be a telling blow to the U.S. who was working hard to galvanize the world pubic opinion under the pretext of the "axis of evil" and, on this basis, isolate the DPRK and drive it to collapse.
The U.S. felt an urgent need to fake up a shocking story to launch an international offensive to isolate and pressurize the DPRK.
It took painstaking efforts to dream up the ridiculous story about the DPRK's "nuclear development" to capture the world attention. It sent Kelly to Pyongyang in the capacity of the president's special envoy last October in a foolish bid to make it a fait accompli. But he only got a serious warning from the DPRK.
The U.S. should have seriously taken our warning and admitted its hostile policy toward the DPRK as an anachronistic one but it went the length of hatching such a political plot as the DPRK's "admission of its nuclear weapons program."
It was against this backdrop that the U.S. drafted the "tailored containment strategy" toward the DPRK and has put it into practice.
While talking about international cooperation in implementing it the U.S. has taken a series of actions to step up the strategy. It prevented DPRK's neighbors and EU countries from making any deal with the DPRK and hamstrung inter-Korean exchange and cooperation. It stopped supplying heavy oil to the DPRK, its commitment under the AF, from December last year and committed piracy against the DPRK trading cargo ship Sosan in broad daylight as part of its sea blockade and attempted to check the service of liner Mangyongbong.
In order to internationalize the offensive to pressurize the DPRK, the U.S. instigated the international atomic energy agency, its cat's paw, to adopt an ultimatum-like "resolution" and worked hard to bring the DPRK's "nuclear issue" to the UN in a bid to put economic sanctions on it.
The U.S. is now desperately clinging to its strategy but there is no guarantee that it will prove successful.
It is the unshakable will of the DPRK to react to the hard-line with the toughest stand and strongly retaliate against the enemies.
As the U.S. scrapped the AF, the DPRK adopted a decision to lift nuclear freeze on December 12 last year and on January 10 this year it released the government's statement to withdraw from the NPT.
The DPRK's withdrawal from the NPT dealt a heavy blow at the U.S. "tailored containment" strategy as it was a legitimate measure taken to cope with the U.S. moves to stifle the DPRK and the IAEA's partial behavior.
The U.S. strategy going against humankind's aspiration and desire to establish an international order for peace, progress, reconciliation and cooperation is now under fire by international community for its reactionary and dangerous nature.
The "tailored containment" strategy is bound to go bankrupt because of the strong trend of the times opposing the U.S. and war.
