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KCNA Assails U.S. Massive Arms Build-up

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- The United States is going to deploy a flotilla of the ultra-modern nuclear carrier John Stenis in the waters off the Korean peninsula, according to a press report. Thomas Fargo, commander-in-chief of the U.S. armed forces in the Pacific, made it clear on September 23 that the U.S. would deploy another aircraft carrier striking group in the Pacific as part of the reorganization of its forces. This is arousing caution not only among the Korean people but the rest of the world community as it is aimed to increase the U.S. forces' capability to strike any region of the world including the Korean peninsula and their maneuverability in the event of "contingency."
    The U.S. has already deployed the striking group led by carrier Kitty Hawk in the Pacific.
    It is also contemplating the deployment on a permanent basis of ultra-modern Aegis missile destroyers capable of undertaking any duty to intercept ballistic missiles in the East Sea of Korea.
    In the meantime the U.S. plans to deploy "PAC-3" in south Korea in coming November.
    It is massively bolstering up the air and naval forces, while "readjusting" its ground forces stationed in south Korea, pursuant to its new "strategy of preemptive strike."
    It has introduced into south Korea ultra-modern weapons and units, hundreds of times more effective in terms of fire power, maneuverability and military equipment than the old ones, thus turning it into the biggest modern arsenal in the Far East, a base from which to launch a preemptive nuclear attack.
    Not content with this, it is going to take the above-said military actions.
    The DPRK can never overlook these grave military moves.
    The U.S. arms build-up indicates that its ambition to bring the DPRK under its control and contain big powers in a bid to establish its political and military domination over the Asian-Pacific region has been carried into extremes.
    This arms build-up is designed to round off its preparations for a new Korean war and escalate the military tension on the Korean peninsula. The moves of the U.S. go to prove that its talk about seeking a negotiated peaceful solution to the nuclear issue between it and the DPRK is hypocrisy and it is, in actuality, invariably pursuing a foolish aim to mount a preemptive attack on the DPRK and put it under its control.
    It is the scenario of the U.S. in case of "contingency" on the Korean peninsula to conduct a ground and air mobile striking operation with its forces deployed in the area south of the River Han and, at the same time, mount a large-scale intensive preemptive strike on the DPRK from sea and air with its naval and air forces stationed in Japan and thus conclude the second Korean war through a blitz warfare with the help of its reinforcements including the rapid deployment task force from such Pacific region as Guam and Hawaii and the U.S. mainland.
    As these facts tell, the U.S. is chiefly to blame for destroying the groundwork of the talks, complicating the nuclear issue and escalating the military situation on the Korean peninsula.
    The DPRK is left with no option but to further increase the self-defensive capability to defend the sovereignty of the country now that the U.S. does not abandon its hostile policy towards the DPRK but persistently works to put it under its control by force of arms.