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Abolition of Outdated Cold War Structure Urged

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

    Pyongyang, August 30 (KCNA) - The commander of the U.S.-south Korea Combined Forces, when interviewed by a newspaper recently, faulted and decried the DPRK's efforts to establish a new peace-keeping mechanism on the Korean Peninsula and cried out for maintaining the state of armistice. In this regard Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says in a signed commentary: His remarks asserting the preservation of the Korean armistice agreement fully reflect the U.S. administration's policy toward the DPRK aimed at justifying its military presence in south Korea and its policy of aggression against the DPRK and using the Korean Peninsula as a ground for confrontation in a new Cold War in the 21st century and a centre for carrying out its strategy to invade Asia.
    The United States is keen to maintain the present state of armistice on the Korean Peninsula in a bid to use it as an effective way and leverage for achieving its criminal military strategic objective.
    Today the Korean Peninsula has become a very dangerous hotspot as it is the area where the situation remains tensest in the world and a war may break out any moment. The U.S. must be aware that the continued state of unstable armistice on the peninsula is bound to lead to an unpredictable dangerous phase. The replacement of the outdated armistice mechanism by a peace- keeping one is essential for terminating all hostile relations between the DPRK and the U.S. including the nuclear stand-off.
    If the U.S. persistently works hard to maintain the present state of armistice, dead-set against the DPRK's proposal and efforts for replacing the armistice mechanism by a peace-keeping one, it will further strain the DPRK-U.S. hostile relations and make it impossible to deter the situation on the Korean Peninsula from leading to the brink of war.
    Whether the armistice mechanism is replaced by a peace-keeping one or not is a crucial issue deciding war or peace.
    If the United States is truly willing to settle the hostile relations between the DPRK and U.S. including the nuclear stand-off, it should make a bold decision to replace the present state of armistice, the leftover of the Cold War in the last century, by a new peace-keeping mechanism and thus fulfill its commitment as the party directly responsible for settling the Korean issue.