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"Conception of Northeast Asian Security Organization" Termed Premature

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, April 2 (KCNA) -- Recently the United States and some other countries concerned came out with a "conception of the Northeast Asian Security Organization" with the six-way framework for the solution to the nuclear issue in mind. But it is a premature idea as it is far removed from the reality. Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed commentary. It goes on:
    The immediate task for security in Northeast Asia is to build bilateral confidence among the regional countries through the removal of hostile relations and mistrust. The debate on creating the Northeast Asia security organization is an issue which may be taken up in a distant future when this crucial task has been carried out.
    It is an armchair argument to discuss this at the present stage in the light of the historic experience in building the multilateral security organization in the past and the peculiar situation in Northeast Asia.
    Confidence-building serves as a cornerstone in the collective security. The abnormal reality in Northeast Asia characterized by the long-standing relations of serious mistrust and confrontation makes it impossible to ensure the balance of forces and trust among the regional countries, much less thinking about the building of a regional security organization.
    There exist in Northeast Asia only contradiction and competition between the U.S. seeking regional hegemony by relying on its huge armed forces in the region and the strategic forces opposed to it. These are the forces standing in rivalry with each other in the region.
    This proves that mistrust can never be wiped out among the regional countries unless the U.S. troops are withdrawn from Japan and south Korea. The U.S. forces should be pulled out of south Korea, first of all, if the U.S. adventurous moves to unleash a nuclear war are to be checked and peace and security ensured on the Korean peninsula, the biggest hotspot in the region.
    The U.S. and Japan are hell-bent on the preparations for a war of aggression against the DPRK and the danger of war is increasing owing to them. It is quite senseless to think under this dangerous situation that diplomatic relations can be established between the DPRK and the U.S. and between the DPRK and Japan.
    The complicated situation in the region tells that this conception is nothing but a subjective ambition ignoring the objective reality.
    The DPRK will not pay any attention to "the conception of the Northeast Asian Regional Security Organization" far removed from the reality but make every possible effort to increase the capacity for self-defence to effectively cope with the U.S. and Japan's immediate threat of aggression.