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U.S. Chiefly to Blame for Increasing Danger of Nuclear War in Korea

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

   Pyongyang, January 29 (KCNA) -- South Korea still remains a powder keg of the U.S. for a dangerous nuclear war and this is a product of its adventurous strategy for world domination and the aggressive hostile policy towards the DPRK.
    Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in a signed article carried 50 years since the U.S. formally announced that it introduced nukes into south Korea.
    Disclosing the criminal aim sought by the U.S. in having reduced south Korea to the most dangerous advance nuclear base in the world and brought the dark clouds of a nuclear war to hang over the Korean nation since the 1950s, the article goes on:
    The U.S. has long harbored the wild ambition to invade the DPRK with south Korea as a springboard and, furthermore, dominate the whole of Northeast Asia. The U.S. designated south Korea as a "vital operation area" as early as in the 1950s and has since stepped up the process of arming the U.S. forces in south Korea with nukes in real earnest.
    The U.S. unilaterally declared the abrogation of the provision (d) of the Paragraph 13 of the Armistice Agreement banning the introduction of modern weapons at the 75th meeting of the Military Armistice Commission held in June 1957. And in July, it declared the start of the work to arm the U.S. forces in south Korea with nuclear weapons. On Jan. 29, 1958, the U.S. formally disclosed its introduction of nukes into south Korea. Few days later the U.S. opened to the public a 280mm atomic gun and nuclear missile "Honest John" at the command of the First Army Corps of the U.S. forces in south Korea and in May it test-fired the atomic gun.
    The U.S. policy for turning south Korea into a nuclear base has been steadily supplemented and perfected and put into a concrete shape in the subsequent period. Various types of nukes including nuclear bombs, nuclear mines and nuclear missiles produced in the U.S. were massively introduced into south Korea, pursuant to this policy.
    The U.S. had deployed more than 1,720 various tactical nuclear weapons in south Korea till the year before 1991, turning south Korea into the world's biggest nuclear base in the density of nuclear weapons deployment. Not content with this, the U.S. bellicose forces made the deployment of not only tactical nukes but also strategic nukes in south Korea an established fact, presupposing "contingency" on the Korean Peninsula at the 38th meeting of the south Korea-U.S. "annual security consultative council" held in October 2006.
    South Korea has thus turned into a huge powder keg for a dangerous nuclear war which may go off any moment and the situation on the peninsula remains so tense that a nuclear war may break out any moment due to the reckless moves of the U.S. which regards nukes as a means for carrying out its strategy for world domination and an all-powerful weapon for aggression and hegemony.