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U.S.-Japan Military Tie-up under Fire

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- The United States and Japan are to expand the scope of the joint use of military bases and transfer some functions of the U.S. army command to the U.S. army in Japan according to the plan for the regrouping of the U.S. forces in Japan following the reexamination of the so-called "frontline deployment strategy" stepped up by the Bush administration. Commenting on this Minju Joson today says:
    These moves are fraught with a great danger which can never be overlooked as they are the biggest in scale in the full-fledged regrouping of armed forces promoted by the United States ever since the end of the Cold War.
    The purpose of the U.S.-Japan military tie-up tightened as never before in areas around the Korean peninsula does not simply lie in itself but in starting another Korean war.
    The moves for tightened military tie-up are laying a serious stumbling block in the way of the negotiated peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. and bringing dark clouds of war over the Korean peninsula. No one can vouch that the new war of aggression sought by the U.S. and Japan against the DPRK would be confined to the peninsula. In the final analysis, this may seriously destabilize the strategic balance in Northeast Asia including the Korean peninsula and touch off a new arms race and another Cold War. This can never be allowed in view of the desire of humankind and the trend of the developments in and around the Korean peninsula.
    The U.S. and Japan should look straight into the reality and immediately stop their moves to strengthen military tie-up for a sinister purpose.