U.S. hit for bolstering its armed forces around Korean Peninsula
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland issued a statement on Feb. 6 denouncing the United States for its moves to massively beef up its armed forces around the Korean Peninsula. Recently the U.S. Defense Department decided to move more than 2,000 airforce personnel and 24 "B-52" and "B-1" bombers to Guam island under the pretext of "support" to the U.S. Forces in South Korea.It also additionally deployed ten odd fighter bombers and u-2 reconnaissance planes in units of the U.S. Forces in South Korea and Japan and decided to dispatch another aircraft carrier Carlvinson to the waters off the Korean Peninsula under the pretext that carrier Kitty Hawk on standby in the waters may join the Iraqi war.
This is an extremely dangerous military move that can be seen only on the eve of a war or in the wartime, the statement said, and went on:
It is indisputable that as long as the U.S. Forces remain in South Korea, neither peace nor security can be ensured on the Korean Peninsula nor can the Koreans live in peace.
The grave situation where there is the real danger of a new war created by the U.S. imperialists on the Korean Peninsula goes to more clearly prove that there exists on the peninsula only confrontation between the Korean nation and the United States.
If the U.S. moves to bolster aggression troops are unchecked, the whole land of Korea will be reduced to ashes and the Koreans will not escape horrible nuclear disasters.
All the Koreans in the north, the south and abroad should turn out as one in the struggle to check and frustrate the U.S. arms buildup, clearly mindful that the more aggression troops the U.S. imperialists deploy in South Korea, the greater misfortune and pain the Korean nation will suffer.
