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Nationwide Struggle to Defend Peace Called for

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

    Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- The present tense situation on the Korean Peninsula where the danger of a new war is growing as the days go by requires all the Koreans at home and abroad to turn out as one in the struggle to protect peace from war, observes Rodong Sinmun Wednesday in a signed article. It is a very crucial issue related to the destiny of the Korean nation to oppose aggression and war and defend peace, the article says, and goes on: The Koreans in the north and the south have been exposed to the constant threat of war of aggression from the U.S. The U.S. imperialists have threatened peace and security and escalated the war crisis on the Korean Peninsula through ceaseless military provocations and escalation of tensions after occupying south Korea by force and reducing it to a dangerous nuclear forward base.
    The U.S. imperialists' criminal moves to realize their hostile ambition to seize the DPRK have assumed dangerous nature all the times but they have become all the more reckless over the nuclear issue.
    The Bush administration is set to settle the nuclear issue by force despite its lip-service to the six-party talks.
    The south Korean military, too, is actively supporting the U.S. imperialists' adventurous moves for a war of aggression against the north. They are putting spurs to the development and introduction of F-15K fighters, early warning planes, tanks, armored vehicles, large landing craft, submarines and other war equipment, talking about "independent capability to fight a war" and "deterrent to counter the north". It is also a very disturbing development that the military is readjusting and reorganizing its forces' overall operation commanding system. By backing the U.S.-proposed "strategic flexibility" and "PSI" of its forces in south Korea, in particular, the south Korean authorities are hamstringing the efforts to warm up the inter-Korean relations and sparking a dangerous situation that may lead to an armed conflict any moment in and around the peninsula.
    Neither peace nor the peaceful reunification of Korea is thinkable without a resolute struggle against the moves for aggression and war on the peninsula. Peace can be won only through a sustained nationwide struggle to protect peace from aggression and war.