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KCNA Assails U.S. Attempt to Control Major World Sea Routes

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, July 28 (KCNA) -- The United States is contemplating staging the largest ever joint military exercise in coming November with 14 member nations of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) in the Caribbean Sea involved. This is a dangerous move for hideous piracy as it is intended to internationalize the PSI, part of its plan to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by inputting several countries into the initiative, rake up economic profits by putting major world sea routes under its control and blockade those countries which incur its displeasure.
    In order to put its PSI set out in 2003 into practice the U.S. seeks to establish a brigandish system whereby it can justify the U.S.-led naval and air blockade operation and expand the scope of its application to punish independent and sovereign states and interfere in their internal affairs.
    The U.S. asserted that the purpose of the exercise is to combat drug smuggling to cut off the flow of fund to terrorists. But this is a cynical ploy to justify its moves to put all sea routes in the world under its control.
    Such moves to expand the sphere of its military and political influence on strategic regions and many countries have, in fact, already gone beyond the tolerance limit.
    At the recent meeting of defence officials of the ASEAN Regional Forum the U.S. talked about the need to blockade seas in various regions including the Malacca Strait under the pretext of combating terrorism.
    The Malacca Strait as well as the Caribbean Strait are major targets of the U.S.
    The U.S. has chosen the DPRK as a principal target in laying an international siege through the control over major sea routes.
    By putting major straits under its military control, the U.S. seeks to deter the DPRK from having any economic ties and trade with other countries and thus isolate and strangle it.
    The U.S. has become all the more undisguised in its moves to intercept and inspect the DPRK-flagged ships in the open sea since it worked out a security action plan to prevent the proliferation of weapons involving eleven countries last year.
    The projected multi-national military exercise assumes grave nature as it will be staged under this action plan.
    The U.S. attempt to control major sea routes is in flagrant violation of international law and regulations providing for normal navigation of cargo ships and norms on relations among countries.
    The U.S. is well advised to face up to the international trend towards peace against war and cancel at once its plan to stage such military maneuver as collective blockade operation.