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U.S. Plan for Preemptive Nuclear Attack Denounced

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, May 19 (KCNA) -- The United States stages joint war games with Japan and south Korea more than a hundred time every year. Entering this year, "Iron Atef" and "Freedom Banner 04" maneuvers, "RSOI" and "Foal Eagle" joint war rehearsals have been staged. This has created a dangerous situation on the Korean peninsula in which a nuclear war may break out any moment. Rodong Sinmun Wednesday in a signed article says the war exercises staged by the U.S. imperialists in and around south Korea are reckless nuclear war gambles going against the flow and demand of the times and a leftover of the Cold War era.
    The article goes on:
    To put an end to the military confrontation and stabilize the situation on the Korean peninsula which is facing the gravest danger of a nuclear war is an urgent demand in guaranteeing world peace and security.
    For the U.S. to kick up the din of war games with south Korea at this moment is a malicious criminal act challenging the sentiments of the people at home and abroad who are desirous of peace and reunification in Korea.
    The six-party talks for the settlement of the nuclear issue will not progress smoothly if the tension on the Korean peninsula and the military confrontation between the DPRK and the U.S. are screwed up to a higher pitch with intensified anti-DPRK war exercises of the U.S. imperialists.
    The nuclear war rehearsals in and around south Korea contradict also the spirit and mission of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
    It is an anachronistic delusion, if the U.S. considers it will be able to browbeat and subjugate the Korean People's Army and people by military pressure and strength.
    It is the unshakable will of the army and people of the DPRK never to allow any attempt to flout the sovereignty of the country and the dignity of the nation.
    The U.S. should shake itself free from the cold war mode of thinking and give up the adventurous plan for a preemptive nuclear attack on the DPRK, looking straight into the flow of the times toward independence and peace.