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Peace-Keeping Mechanism on Korean Peninsula Called for

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

   Pyongyang, November 25 (KCNA) -- To defuse the military tensions and ensure peace on the Korean Peninsula is an urgent issue the solution of which brooks no further delay in view of the trend of the times and the requirements of the prevailing situation, says Rodong Sinmun Sunday in a signed article.
    It is necessary to remove the factors of wrecking peace in order to ensure peace on the peninsula, the article notes, and goes on:
    It is chiefly attributable to the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK that the peninsula has not yet been freed from the state of war though more than half a century has passed since the ceasefire. The U.S. much touted "threat to security" from the DPRK is nothing but a far-fetched assertion intended to slander the DPRK's independent foreign policy and steps for increasing its self-reliant national defence capacity and a ruse to justify the moves for aggression against the DPRK. It is the intention of the U.S. to destabilize and destroy the socialist system in the DPRK and thus eliminate socialism from the earth.
    There can be neither the improved DPRK-U.S. relations nor a durable peace on the Korean Peninsula unless the U.S. rolls back its hostile policy toward the DPRK.
    It is one of the fundamental conditions for peace on the peninsula to replace the armistice agreement by a peace agreement. When this happens, it will make it possible to remove the military confrontation on the peninsula and automatically help build confidence between the two countries. The U.S. stand and attitude toward the issue of replacing the armistice agreement by a peace agreement would, therefore, serve as a yardstick showing whether it wants peace on the peninsula or seeks a war.
    It is necessary to terminate the hostile relations between the two countries and promote confidence. This is urgently required not only for ensuring peace on the peninsula but for normalizing the bilateral relations and improving the U.S. image.
    It is one of the important conditions for ensuring peace on the Korean Peninsula for the U.S. to stop its moves for turning Japan and south Korea into its military bases and withdraw its aggression forces from the peninsula and the rest of the Asia-Pacific region.