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U.S. Responsible for Nuclear Issue on Korean Peninsula

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

   Pyongyang, February 28 (KCNA) -- The United States has resorted to nuclear blackmail against the Korean nation for half a century since it brought nuclear weapons into the Korean Peninsula.
    Having declared to the world "the start of the nuclearization" of its army occupying south Korea on July 15, Juche 46 (1957), the U.S. formally announced the shipment of nuclear weapons on January 29, 1958, introducing such nuclear arms as atomic gun and nuclear missile "Honest John" into south Korea.
    The Korean nation has since lived in a constant danger of a nuclear war on the part of the U.S. for full half a century.
    The U.S. massively deployed such atomic weapons and guided missiles as "Matador" and "Hawk" missiles and nuclear mines in south Korea in the 1960s and new-type nuclear weapons in the 1970s.
    Ronald Dellums, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, confessed in his congressional testimony in June 1975 that the U.S. had shipped more than 1,000 nuclear weapons into south Korea and deployed there 54 airplanes capable of carrying nuclear bombs.
    The U.S. acts for beefing up nuclear forces reached the highest pitch in the 1980s.
    According to minutes of the south Korean "National Assembly" session in 1985, the nuclear weapons of the U.S. deployed in south Korea had run into no less than 1,720, which included nuclear bombs, nuclear artillery shells, missile nuclear warheads, neutron bombs and shells, nuclear mines and nuke knapsacks.
    This is said to be four times the NATO region in nuclear deployment density in 1990 and more than 1,000 times the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in explosive power.
    The hectic drive of the U.S. culminated in the conversion of south Korea into a nuclear base topping the global list of nuclear density with one or more nuclear weapons deployed per 100 square kilometers.
    The U.S. has posed a constant threat of nuclear attack to the DPRK, having turned south Korea into the biggest nuclear advance base in the Far East and strategic nuclear arsenal targeted against it.
    The U.S. was never weary of supplementing and rounding off its nuclear war scenarios ranging from the top-secret operational plan "8-53" in the 1950s to the "OPLAN 5027-98" and the "emergency plan" and escalated nuclear war games against the north on their basis.
    Entering the new century, the U.S. formulated a preemptive nuclear strike at the DPRK in its policy and scrapped the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework, screwing up the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula to a new pitch.
    History strips the United States naked as the very one responsible for the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula.