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S. Korean Authorities' Dangerous Arms Buildup Assailed

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, October 4 (KCNA) -- The south Korean authorities at a recent State Council meeting decided to increase the national defense budget for the next year 9.9 percent over this year. A signed commentary of Rodong Sinmun Monday brands their arms buildup plan as an unpardonable criminal move to increase the tensions on the Korean peninsula and push the inter-Korean relations to those of military stand-off and a war.
    It goes on:
    The south Korean authorities are increasing the military spending and putting spurs to the reinforcement and modernization of the south Korean forces to keep pace with the U.S. arms build-up, grumbling that the "reduction" of the U.S. forces would cause "security vacuum." This is prompted by their criminal plot to bring holocaust of a nuclear war to this land, pursuant to the U.S. policy for a war of aggression against the north.
    The south Korean authorities are hell-bent on provocative arms build-up, advocating a "policy for self-reliant national defense." It is not the military field that needs self-reliance but foreign and political affairs and efforts for reunification.
    The Koreans desirous of the independent reunification do not want arms race and confrontation between fellow countrymen but peace of the country and reconciliation between the north and the south. The south Korean authorities can never escape from denunciation and rebuff by all the Koreans as they swim against this trend.
    The DPRK invariably aspires after peace and reunification of the Korean peninsula but does not pardon those who seek to do harm to it. It is the spirit and grit of the army and people of the DPRK to react against provocation with punishment and meet any challenge with a merciless strike.
    The south Korean authorities should cancel at once such a dangerous arms build-up plan, cogitating about the grave consequences to be entailed by their reckless moves for military confrontation.