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KCNA on Ever-Increasing Military Threat from U.S.

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, May 6 (KCNA) -- The United States is reported to have planned to deploy two battalions of latest type Patriot interceptor missiles in south Korea this year. South Korea is expected to organize an anti-air defence brigade in 2006 with these two battalions as its backbone.
    The projected formation of the brigade is part of "arms buildup plan" announced by the U.S. Defense Department last year. The plan envisages spending $11 billion for the beef-up of its military capability in south Korea.
    The U.S. claims that the deployment of missiles in south Korea is of defensive nature as it is aimed to cope with possible ballistic missile and air strikes from someone. But this is, in fact, just part of its aggressive and offensive military buildup plan for the invasion of the DPRK.
    The U.S. designated the DPRK as a target of its "preemptive attack" and has massively shipped modern military hardware into south Korea since its self-proclaimed end of the Iraqi war, thus converting south Korea into the biggest arsenal in the Far East and ceaselessly increasing its military threat to Pyongyang.
    Last year the U.S. additionally inducted at least 20 new type Longbow AH-64D helicopters into a battalion of Apache helicopters of the U.S. 6th cavalry brigade stationed in south Korea. Then it replaced some PAC-2 by latest type PAC-3.
    Its massive shipment of the latest combat equipment into south Korea also included more than 10 fighter bombers, a U-2, 6 F-117 Stealth bombers, one wing of F-15E fighters, one Shadow 200.
    Nearly 30 nuclear-powered submersibles have already been deployed by the U.S. in waters off the Asia-Pacific region under the simulated conditions of an "emergency" on the Korean peninsula. It also deployed 24 B-52 and B-1 in Guam under the same pretext this year.
    It even announced a plan to begin deploying for an actual war latest type destroyer Aegis equipped with a missile interceptor system in the East Sea of Korea from September to come and round off its establishment of the naval missile interceptor system by the end of 2005.
    These disturbing military moves of the U.S. are a major factor of straining the situation on the Korean peninsula and sparking military tension and arms race in the region.
    The DPRK is following with utmost vigilance the U.S. deployment of ultra-modern military means and its escalated military threat to the DPRK stepped up behind the scene of dialogue and bracing for a possible provocation.