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KCNA Calls for Replacement of Armistice Agreement with Peace Agreement

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

   Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- 55 years have passed since the Armistice Agreement was signed in Korea.
    The Korean nation has been exposed to the constant danger of war due to the state of ceasefire that has lasted for more than half a century.
    The situation on the Korean Peninsula remains extremely tense but there is no legal and institutional mechanism to guarantee peace and security in the region.
    This is attributable to the fact that the AA which calls for providing a legal guarantee for the security of the peninsula had already lost its legal binding force due to the U.S. violations of it.
    The DPRK and the U.S. concluded the AA which stipulated the legal commitments to stop all hostile actions and contribute to the peaceful settlement of the Korean issue in the 1950s of the last century.
    The U.S. brazen-faced perfidy resulted in scrapping the AA and keeping the escalated tension and the phase of war in the peninsula for several decades.
    The U.S. has systemically violated the AA by wantonly breaching its provisions and rendering its mechanisms completely defunct.
    After unilaterally declaring the abrogation of the paragraph 13 D of the AA in the 1950s, the U.S. introduced modern weaponry and equipment and more than 1,000 nuclear weapons of various types into south Korea, thus turning it into a huge arsenal and the biggest nuclear outpost in the Far East and converting it into a springboard from which to start military provocations against the DPRK.
    The U.S. is still showing the sign of armed forces' cutbacks in other parts of the world but it is further reinforcing its armed forces in the Asian-Pacific surrounding the Korean Peninsula.
    This is evidenced by the fact that the U.S. modern armed forces including nuclear-powered carriers are being amassed in the areas around the peninsula and the U.S.-led war exercises targeted against the DPRK are frequently staged.
    This is a gross violation of the provisions of the AA which clearly bans the acts of threatening and blackmailing each other by introducing armed forces.
    Due to hundreds of thousands of cases of U.S. violations of the AA, the state of ceasefire remains, in actuality, at very great peril.
    It is quite impossible to prevent any accidental military conflict and catastrophic war as long as the present ceasefire mechanism is allowed to go on.
    In order to put a definite end to the state of ceasefire on the peninsula it is necessary to replace the AA by a peace agreement.
    This process is the key to terminating the military confrontation, removing the danger of war and guaranteeing the peace and security in the peninsula and the rest of the Asia -Pacific.
    The tension can be defused on the peninsula and the danger of war removed from it only when the U.S. drops its hostile policy towards the DPRK and a peace agreement is concluded between the two sides.
    The U.S., being a signatory to the Korean Armistice Agreement, is the real party that can discuss the issue of replacing the AA by a peace agreement.
    Nevertheless, the U.S. has rejected or sidestepped the fair and realistic peace proposals advanced by the DPRK.
    The AA still remains useless due to the irresponsible attitude on the part of the U.S.
    The U.S. would be well advised to face up to the present trend of history and the situation and make a bold decision to replace the AA by a peace agreement as early as possible.