Military Commentator Blasts Outbursts of Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff of South Korean Forces
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)
Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the south Korean Forces at a "confirmation hearing at the National Assembly" on March 26 pulled up the north over what he called "nuclear threat" and went the lengths of threatening that they would make a "preemptive strike" at its nuclear bases with precision guided weapons when necessary. This is little short of a declaration of a war against the DPRK.
A military commentator declared this in his article entitled "South Korean military authorities should behave with discretion".
We do not interpret the above-said outbursts as an accidental slip of tongue, the article noted, adding that what he cried out for fully represents the new policy of the present south Korean authorities towards the north.
The article continued:
The threat that the south Korean forces will make a "preemptive strike" at the nuclear bases of the compatriots is a manifestation of the political immaturity and military ignorance as he does not know how our nuclear weapons were manufactured and at what they are targeted. What he uttered is nothing but a servile attitude betraying the sycophancy and submission towards his master as the guy echoed his brigandish assertion in a bid to put it into practice.
In the light of the position of the south Korean military authorities the above-said outbursts are nothing but sheer nonsense and nothing surprising to us but the Korean People's Army cannot but clarify its principled stand as regards them as they represent the present south Korean authorities' new policy of the confrontation towards the DPRK.
As we have clarified more than once, a preemptive strike is by no means a monopoly of the one party on the Korean Peninsula where there goes on the state of neither war nor peace.
Our revolutionary armed forces always keep themselves battle ready as they have followed all military moves of the south Korean forces with vigilance.
They will counter any slightest move for "preemptive strikes" at their nuclear bases with more rapid and more powerful preemptive strikes of their own mode.
It is the traditional method of counteraction and militant mettle peculiar to our revolutionary armed forces to return fire for fire and counter any hard-line step with the toughest measure.
The Korean People's Army whose mission is to defend the socialist country under the banner of Songun will not remain an onlooker till the warmongers make a "preemptive strike".
They should bear in mind that once the more powerful preemptive strike of our own mode be launched, it will not merely plunge everything into flames but reduce it to ashes.
All the expected north-south dialogues will be totally suspended unless the south Korean military authorities clarify their stand to retract the outbursts calling for "preemptive strike" and apologize for them.
It is our consistent avowed stand that dialogue and war cannot go together.
It is illogical to sit at the negotiating table with the party which unhesitatingly called for preemptive strikes after beefing up its aggressor forces for the provocation of a war and staging large- scale joint military exercises with outside forces.
The prevailing grave situation compels our revolutionary armed forces to take such a strong measure as strictly banning the passage of the south Korean authorities including military personnel through the Military Demarcation Line as an immediate step.
The KPA has so far allowed the passage through the MDL which has remained tightly closed for the last more than half a century irrespective of persons from the stand to promote reconciliation and unity between compatriots and prosperity and interests common to the nation.
But there is a limit to our tolerance.
Nothing is more foolish than to continue allowing those trigger-happy elements to enter our territory as they threaten to make no scruple of mounting a preemptive attack on us.
The south Korean military authorities will be held wholly accountable for the serious impact the above-mentioned outbursts will have on the development of the north-south relations.
History showed more than once what a miserable end those who defied the demand of the times and the desire of the nation met.
The south Korean military authorities had better face up to the situation and behave with discretion.
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