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Spokesman for KPA Mission in Panmunjom Issues Statement

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, June 1 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the mission of the Korean People's Army (KPA) in Panmunjom issued a statement Wednesday in connection with the U.S. Department of Defense's unilateral announcement of the suspension of the joint field activities (JFA) for the U.S. remains that had been underway under the KPA-U.S. DoD Arrangement. He said: Recently the U.S. DoD unilaterally announced without any formal notice to the KPA side the suspension of the joint recovery operations that had been underway under the KPA-DoD Arrangement.
    As far as the JFA in our country is concerned, this started thanks to the humanitarian measure taken by the DPRK to meet the earnest requests made by the former U.S. president Carter and American war veterans, bereaved families of the war dead and the American government.
    Our side permitted more than 30 recovery operations and enabled members of the U.S. side to safely go back, taking recovered remains with them, without having even a single fingernail hurt, even against the background of the very tense relations between the DPRK and the U.S.
    All the members of the U.S. side involved in the recovery operations repeatedly expressed thanks to the KPA side for having rendered cooperation in the operations from a humanitarian stand.
    This being a hard fact, the U.S. side unilaterally reneged on the bilateral arrangement.
    This patiently proves the hypocrisy of its oft-repeated claim that "a humanitarian work" is something different from politics.
    The recent action taken by the U.S. side at a time when it has become more undisguised than ever before in its attempt to mount a preemptive attack on the DPRK is aimed, to all intents and purposes, to escalate its moves to stifle the DPRK.
    This step taken by the U.S. side is timed to coincide with the entry of "its arms build-up plan" which calls for spending 13 billion U.S. dollars into a final phase in the wake of the deployment of Stealth Fighter Bombers and underground penetrating missiles in south Korea and the finalization of such scenarios for preemptive strikes at the DPRK as "OPLAN 8022-02".
    Our army cannot but pay serious attention to this.
    The U.S. side's use of even the humanitarian work, which had been underway as requested by itself, for a sinister political and military purpose once again fully revealed what a foolish ruling group the present U.S. administration is.
    Now that it has become impossible to conduct the JFA any longer, the KPA side has decided to totally dismantle its side's investigation and recovery unit. The rude action taken by the present U.S. administration has totally blocked the way of confirming the identification of more than 8,000 U.S. soldiers reported missing in action during the Korean war. In consequence, the U.S. remains buried in Korea can never be recovered but are bound to be reduced to earth with the flow of time.
    We do not care whether the U.S. side stops the recovery operation as it pleases, though it is responsible for taking back the remains.