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U.S. Forgets Pueblo Lesson

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

   Pyongyang, January 23 (KCNA) -- Fourty years have passed since the U.S. armed spy ship Pueblo was seized by seamen of the Korean People's Army.
    The Pueblo was captured on January 23, Juche 57 (1968) while spying on military and state secrets of the DPRK after intruding into its territorial waters in the East Sea of Korea up to 7.6 miles from Ryo Islet near Wonsan.
    The U.S. imperialists, far from admitting their crime, reacted to this deserving punishment with a military threat to the DPRK, claiming that their ship was seized in the "open sea" and it did not commit an espionage act.
    In face of the super stiff attitude of the DPRK determined to answer the "retaliation" of the enemy with retaliation and an all-out war with an all-out war, the U.S. administration was forced to sign a document solemnly apologizing for the espionage and hostile acts committed by its spy ship and giving assurances that it would not let any warship intrude into the territorial waters of the DPRK in the future.
    However, even before the ink was dry on the paper of apology signed by them, the U.S. imperialists illegally sent their large-size spy plane EC-121 in April 1969 and spy helicoptor OAH-23G in August 1969 into the air space of the DPRK, which were brought down by the KPA while committing espionage and hostile acts.
    But, after drinking the bitter cups of setback, they have continued committing espionage on the DPRK, including the incident of a reconnaissance helicopter in December 1994.
    The U.S. bellicose forces have of late massed reconnaissance planes of different types in and around south Korea and lengthened their flying hours while beefing up the forces of electronic operation and information espionage.
    "U-2" high-altitude strategic reconnaissance planes of the U.S. forces in south Korea committed air surveillance, photographing and electronic reconnaissance on the whole area of the DPRK on more than 300 occasions and the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean army carried out aerial espionage on 2,250 occasions or more in total last year alone.
    It is the temperament of the Korean people never to tolerate the encroachment upon the sovereignty of the nation.
    If the United States heads for increased tension, persisting in espionage acts against the DPRK, they will be unable to evade the lot of the Pueblo.