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DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman Blasts U.S. Establishment of MD

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

   Pyongyang, June 15 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK Friday issued the following statement in connection with the fact that the U.S. attempt to establish the Missile Defense System (MD) has now entered a grave phase, disturbing the world:
    The U.S. plan to deploy an interceptor missile base and radar station, a link in the whole chain of the MD, in Poland and the Czech Republic and plug Australia into the MD in the wake of drawing Japan into it in the Asia-Pacific is arousing deep apprehension and rebuff from many countries of the world.
    The U.S. has asserted that the worldwide MD it is working to build is aimed to deter missile attack from the DPRK and Iran, but it is no more than a clumsy pretext.
    One can see that the MD has nothing to do with the DPRK only if one studies from which it originated.
    As is well known to the world, the MD pushed forward by the Bush administration at present originated from a "strategic defense initiative" which the Reagan administration worked out to attack the former Soviet Union during the period of the Cold War.
    It is clear even from the scale of the MD at the present phase that this huge defence network is not targeted against just a few small countries.
    It is nonsensical for the U.S. to assert that it is expanding the MD network to far away Oceania in the south beyond Japan and Guam from Alaska to intercept missiles from the DPRK. And it is illogical for the U.S. to claim that it is deploying an interceptor missile base in Eastern Europe beyond Greenland and Britain to intercept those from Iran.
    Had the U.S. felt really threatened by the missile capacity of the DPRK, it would have had already several opportunities of seeking a negotiated settlement of the issue on an equal footing, not by wasting a stupendous amount of funds.
    The DPRK had already proposed negotiations on the issue of missiles to the U.S. and European countries in view of their concerns in the period of Clinton administration. It even took such a measure of good faith as unilaterally declaring a moratorium on the long-range missile launch while the DPRK-U.S. talks were underway with a view to promoting confidence.
    But no sooner had the Bush administration taken office than it turned aside these opportunities and pursued one-sided and hard-line hostile policy toward the DPRK, thus compelling it to bolster deterrence including the missile capacity.
    This proves that the U.S. needed a pretext on which to push ahead with the establishment of the MD.
    The U.S. is now pushing forward the MD in the direction of sieging Eurasia from both east and west.
    It has been the core of the U.S. strategy for world domination since the demise of the Cold War to deter any force from emerging to challenge it.
    It is the view of the U.S. that there are powers in Eurasia which have such potentials and those potentials have recently grown at a faster pace than expected.
    Much upset by this, the present U.S. administration decided to push ahead with the MD although its technical effectiveness has not yet been fully certified.
    It is the calculation of the U.S. that if big powers in Eurasia become embroiled in arms race to cope with it this would be good for weakening them and in case this does not happen, it would be advisable for it to unilaterally perfect and expand the MD so as to neutralize the nuclear retaliatory capacity of other big powers and maintain unchallenged military hegemony.
    If such moves are allowed to go on, there will be neither trend toward multi-polarization nor any hope for democratization in the world. And it will be exposed to the military blackmail and high-handed practices of the only hegemonic country.
    The U.S. cites small countries as a pretext for its MD but it is not the issue of such nature which can be settled even when those pretexts are no longer available, given the strategic importance the U.S. attaches to it.
    The U.S. ever-more undisguised row of finding fault with the DPRK and the arms race escalating in the areas around Korea due to the U.S. moves will only force the DPRK to bolster its deterrent for self-defence.