DPRK KCNA's 12 May 'Detailed Report' Says US 'Ruptured' Denuclearization Process
Korean Central News Agency
P'yongyang
May 12, 2003
[FBIS Translated Text]
KCNA Detailed Report
Due to the US strong-arm policy of the nuclear crushing of the DPRK,
a grave situation in which a nuclear war may break out is being created.
To evade its responsibility for the current situation and
internationalize our nuclear issue, the United States is spreading the
inverted opinion that North Korea violated denuclearization of the Korean
peninsula. This is logic like a thief turning on the victim with a club.
From its principled stand of defending the country's independence and
dignity and contributing to peace in Asia and the world, the government
of the Republic proposed denuclearization of the Korean peninsula a long
time ago; in 20 January 1992, the Joint Declaration of the
Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula was adopted between the North
and South; and the government of the Republic has since constantly made
positive efforts to implement it.
However, the United States challenged our nation's aspirations and
efforts for denuclearization, endlessly created nuclear threats, and,
thus, consequently ruptured the process of the denuclearization of the
Korean peninsula.
The KCNA releases the following detailed report to indict the US
crime of having invalidated the North-South joint declaration of
denuclearization, which contributes to removing the dangers of a nuclear
war, promoting an atmosphere for North-South exchange and cooperation,
and guaranteeing peace and security in Asia and the world.
Background of the Release of the North-South Joint Declaration of
Denuclearization
The Joint Declaration of the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula
stipulates, as a basic provision, that the South and North shall not
test, manufacture, produce, possess, store, deploy or use nuclear
weapons.
The joint declaration, in essence, proceeded from the goal of
fundamentally removing the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula. The
nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula is, thoroughly, a product of the US
policy of turning South Korea into a nuclear base.
The United States, which is restless with its ambition to conquer the
world, deployed the Honest John nuclear missiles for action in South
Korea in the latter half of the 1950's, which created a nuclear issue.
Moreover, it introduced neutron shells, which are the devilish weapon of
the 20th century, there in the first half of the 1980's, which has
further highlighted the graveness of the nuclear issue.
The United States has pursued the so-called NCND policy, under which
it neither confirms nor denies the deployment of nuclear weapons.
However, it has not tried to conceal the fact that it deployed nuclear
weapons in South Korea but used it as a means to threaten us.
US Secretary of State Dulles, during a news conference in 14 May
1957, officially hinted at the plan to introduce nuclear weapons to South
Korea, and on the same day, Defense Secretary Wilson gave more detail to
this plan and admitted that the types of nuclear weapons included Honest
John's and various other types of nuclear weapons deployed in Europe --
AP
On 15 July 1957, the US Army authorities officially announced that
the US forces in South Korea would start nuclear arming and that five
combat units capable of waging an atomic war would be deployed in South
Korea -- Tongyang News Agency, from Washington
On 3 February 1958, the US forces put on display two units of each of
the 280mm atomic cannon and Honest John nuclear missile, which had been
deployed in South Korea, in an airfield of the US 1st Corps near Uijongbu
and made them public to reporters -- Tongyang, Reuters, and Haptong
News Agency
On 16 December 1958, the United States announced through the UN
Command that the UN forces in South Korea were equipped with Matador
missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads -- Reuters from Seoul
During a news conference on 20 June 1975, US Secretary of Defense
Schlesinger said: We think you know that we have deployed tactical
nuclear weapons in South Korea -- Jiji from Washington
According to a Haptong News Agency report filed from Washington in
June 1975, during a House of Representative meeting to examine the US
defense budget for 1976 held on 30 May 1975, it was officially revealed
that approximately 1,000 nuclear weapons and 64 aircraft loaded with
nuclear weapons had been deployed in South Korea.
South Korea has been turned into, literally, the biggest US nuclear
[weapons] exhibition hall [haekchonsijang].
The January 1981 edition of Defense Monitor, a magazine published by
the US Defense Intelligence Center, notes that the nuclear shells
introduced to South Korea included 80 warheads for Honest John missiles,
192 tactical nuclear bombs for fighter-bombers, 152 nuclear shells for
155 howitzers, and 56 nuclear shells for eight-inch howitzers.
The United States even deployed for action in South Korea 56 neutron
bombs, the variety which countries in Europe and other areas had refused
to allow deployment of and introduced even a large number of field
portable nuclear backpack devices.
According to a US Defense Department announcement reported by Hanguk
Ilbo on 15 July 1985, the United States deployed a (Wensu) nuclear
missile battalion in South Korea, becoming the first such overseas base,
except for Europe.
Turning South Korea into a nuclear base has rendered it into a
direct and crucial threat to peace not only on the Korean peninsula, but
to Asia and the rest of the world.
The gravity of the nuclear threat to our Republic was further
increased by the nuclear weapons development maneuvers of South Korea's
Yusin [former ROK President Pak Chong-hui's "Revitalizing Reforms"]
regime. In the early 1970s, the Yusin regime invited nuclear physicists
from the United States and promoted the purchase of atomic reactors from
many countries.
In 1976, [the Yusin regime] founded the Atomic Power Technology
Corporation and the Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation. It began to
build a large-scale research facility for developing atomic power
technology in the central region [of South Korea] starting from 1977 --
South Korean monthly Wolgan Choson's 1983 October edition
In the beginning of 1978 when Kori Atomic Power Plant launched
operations, South Korea had already obtained the capability of annually
extracting 139 to 167 Kilograms of plutonium 239. Such an amount is
enough to manufacture 23 to 28, 20-kilo tonne-class nuclear bombs --
South Korean magazine International Affairs No. 2 in 1985
In its report entitled Nuclear Proliferation and US Diplomatic
Policy, which was made public on 9 November 1980, the US Brookings
Institute noted that South Korea and Japan could possess nuclear weapons
within the next ten years.
The aforementioned facts historically prove that the United States
has long deployed nuclear weapons in South Korea and incessantly posed a
nuclear threat to our Republic, by instigating even South Korean
bellicose elements.
The government of the Republic effectuated the Joint Declaration of
the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in order to fundamentally
resolve the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula coping with the
established situation.
Consistent Efforts for Denuclearization
Perceiving the elimination of nuclear threat which has long been
posed to us as a crucial issue related to the survival of the nation, the
government of the Republic has not suspended, for even a moment, the
denuclearization and anti-nuclear struggle on the Korean peninsula
[choson pandoui pihaekhwa panhaek t'ujaengul].
At the 12th session of the first DPRK Supreme People's Assembly [SPA]
in November 1956, an official position was announced opposing the
introduction of atomic weapons [wonja mugi] to South Korea. When the
United States attempted to unilaterally scrap paragraph 13d of the
Armistice Agreement and orchestrated to bring atomic weapons to South
Korea, the government of the Republic strongly called for suspending
actions of aggravating intense situation on the Korean peninsula via its
Foreign Ministry statement dated on 30 May 1957.
The first session of the second SPA in September 1957 reiterated that
the articles of the Armistice Agreement be honored and that armistice be
transformed into solid peace, and demanded once again that South Korea
not be allowed to become a US nuclear base.
At the Military Armistice Commission's 91st and 100th meeting on 19
December 1958 and 27 April 1959, respectively, our side seriously
protested the introduction of nuclear missiles to South Korea, and
asserted that all nuclear weapons such as illegally-brought-in nuclear
missiles and atomic artillery [wonjap'o] be withdrawn and that the US
forces be withdrawn.
Both in the 1960s and 1970s via meetings at the SPA, the North-South
Coordinating Committee, the Military Armistice Commission, and via
various opportunities, our just position against South Korea being turned
into a nuclear base was reiterated.
With regard to South Korean moves for nuclear weapons development,
the government of the Republic announced a Foreign Ministry spokesman's
statement on 20 December 1974, whereby we called attention to and sent a
warning to the moves.
In the 1980s when the dangers of thermonuclear war on the Korean
peninsula were further increased due to the annual Team Spirit joint
military exercise, a test nuclear war [haecksihom chonjaeng], our
anti-nuclear struggle developed into a struggle to realize
denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and the Northeast Asian region.
On 16 March 1981, a joint statement with the Japanese Socialist Party
was announced on establishing a denuclearized and peaceful Northeast
Asian region, in P'yongyang.
On 10 January 1984, the Central People's Committee and the SPA
Standing Committee held a joint meeting and adopted letters, and sent
them to the US Government and Congress and the South Korean authorities.
The letters proposed to hold a trilateral meeting including the South
Korean authorities in the DPRK-US talks to discuss countermeasures for
eradicating the dangers of nuclear war and providing a turning point for
peaceful resolution of the DPRK issue.
At the third session of the seventh SPA on 25 January 1984, in order
to stave off ever-growing dangers of nuclear war, it was appealed to
launch an international campaign to withdraw all nuclear weapons from
South Korea and turn the Korean peninsula into a denuclearized and
peaceful region.
In a joint statement released on 8 December 1985, the Republic's
political parties and public organizations welcomed the fact that Soviet
and US leaders [sunoejaduri] reached a fundamental agreement at the
Geneva meeting on issues regarding the reduction of nuclear [weapons] and
the prevention of a nuclear war. Thus, they emphasized that if the
United States truly wants peace, it should withdraw its nuclear weapons
from South Korea and respond by turning the Korean peninsula into a
nuclear-free, peace zone [pihaek p'yonghwa chidae].
The government of the Republic joined the NPT in December of 1985 to
realize denuclearization of the Korean peninsula as well as to thoroughly
secure the country's sovereignty.
After becoming a signatory to the treaty, the government of the
Republic suggested more initiative proposals for peace and have
endeavored to realize these proposals in every way.
In the 23 June 1986 statement, the government of the Republic
solemnly declared not testing, manufacturing, storing, or bringing in
nuclear weapons and not allowing any military bases, including nuclear
bases overseas. It also solemnly declared not allowing foreign
countries' nuclear weapons to pass through its territory, territorial
air, and territorial waters.
In the statement, the government of the Republic revealed that if the
US Government and South Korean authorities happen to demand some kind of
negotiations regarding our proposal to turn the Korean peninsula into a
nuclear-free, peace zone, irrespective of form, it would respond to such
demands anytime [songmyongun migukchongbuwa namjoson tanggugi choson
pandorul pih'aek chidae p'yonghwa chidaero mandulte taehan uriui cheuiwa
kwallyonhayo ku otton hyopsangul yoguhandamyon konghwagukchongbunun
hyongsige kuaedoemi opsi kue onu ttaena unghal kosirago palk'otta].
We did not just wait for the other party to respond but consecutively
suggested specific proposals to develop practical conditions to establish
a nuclear-free, peace zone on the Korean peninsula.
Through the 13 July 1987 Foreign Ministry statement, the government
of the Republic again clarified its stand regarding practical measures to
establish a nuclear-free, peace zone on the Korean peninsula and to
firmly secure its status.
In the statement, we demanded the United States withdraw its nuclear
weapons and promise to cancel operation plans regarding the use of
nuclear weapons.
Regarding Japan, we suggested that it not make its territory into
another country's base to sally forth, relay, and supply nuclear weapons
that oppose the Korean peninsula.
We also asked all the states that possessed nuclear weapons to
restrain themselves from engaging in any type of military actions that
could stir up a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula and its vicinity.
We also appealed to the South Korean authorities to withdraw nuclear
weapons, transport means, and all military bases, including nuclear
bases, in its region and not bring in and store nuclear weapons from now
on as well as not develop or possess nuclear weapons and to totally
prohibit other countries' nuclear weapons from passing through its
region.
Our efforts did not end here.
New and practical proposals for the denuclearization of the Korean
peninsula were suggested during the 23 July 1987 Republic government's
statement, the 20 July 1988 meeting of the Supreme People's Assembly
[SPA] Standing Committee, the 7 November 1988 joint meeting of the
Central People's Committee [this committee was abolished by
constitutional law, revised in 1998], the SPA Standing Committee, and the
Administration Council, the 31 May 1990 joint meeting of the Central
People's Committee, the SPA Standing Committee, and the Administration
Council.
Our sincere efforts to realize the joint statement on the
denuclearization of the Korean peninsula were further reinforced since
its release on 20 January 1992.
Above all, the government of the Republic paid great attention to
having documents, which have historic significance in getting rid of the
source of dangers of nuclear war on the Korean peninsula, that have a
complete legal force.
A joint declaration of denuclearization of the Korean peninsula was
reviewed and approved at the 5 February 1992 joint meeting of the Central
People's Committee and the SPA Standing Committee.
This was an epochal incident that served as a milestone in turning
the Korean peninsula into a nuclear weapon-free, peace zone as well as in
realizing the country's reunification.
As one of our more practical measures, a proposal to ratify the
safety accords between the DPRK and the IAEA was considered, deliberated,
and approved at the 16th session of the delegates to the 9th SPA Standing
Committee on 18 February 1992 as well as at the third session of the 9th
SPA that was held in April 1992 and came into effect on 10 April 1992.
Through statements and press statements [songmyonggwa tamhwadurul
t'onghayo], the government of the Republic proposed the need to
denuclearize the Korean peninsula as well as measures to realize it. At
the same time, the government of the Republic also severely denounced the
US maneuvers hindering the implementation of the joint declaration of
denuclearization.
In particular, on 3 June 1992, the Secretariat of the Committee for
the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland disclosed and severely
condemned the fact that US and South Korean authorities were aggravating
the tension on the Korean peninsula and increasing the dangers of a
nuclear threat while violating the basic spirit of the North-South
agreement and joint declaration of denuclearization.
In a memorandum issued on 12 September 1997, the government of the
Republic revealed how US and South Korean authorities were rashly
maneuvering to reinforce nuclear weapons behind the screen of talks and
thus solemnly demanded that they immediately halt such maneuvers.
Through the Foreign Ministry's memoranda and the bill of indictments
of the Korean Anti-Nuclear Peace Committee and the Korean Democratic
Lawyers Association on 15 March 1993, 20 April 1994, 7 January 1999, and
28 February 2003, we called attention to the fact of dangers of a nuclear
war turning up on the Korean peninsula owing to the US and South Korean
authorities' test nuclear war exercise and the unfair behavior of some
quarters of the IAEA Secretariat. We also proposed constructive and
substantial proposals to settle this matter.
During the 18 March 2003 joint meeting of the government of the
Republic, political parties, and public organizations, we appealed to all
the fellow countrymen at home and abroad to safeguard the nation's
sovereignty and Korean peninsula's peace by preventing the dangers of a
nuclear war, which is approaching the Korean peninsula every moment, with
national cooperation.
With the purpose to turning the Korean peninsula into a nuclear-free
zone, the government of the Republic fully disclosed our nuclear
activities for a peaceful purpose to the international (?community) and
thus proved the justness and integrity [chongdangsonggwa
kyolbaeksongul] of our nuclear policy.
The government of the Republic allowed the IAEA delegation led by its
director-general to visit our country from 11 to 16 May 1992 and showed
all the objects of nuclear facilities that they demanded and objects that
they suspected [uisimssuroptanun taesangdurul].
We submitted to the IAEA the initial inventory report on nuclear
material and nuclear facility-designing information that are supposed to
be submitted according to Articles 42 and 62 of the nuclear safety
accords between the DPRK and the IAEA, on 4 May 1992, way ahead of the
set date.
The government of the Republic actively cooperated in the work of the
ad-hoc inspection team, six times, from May of 1992 to early February of
1993.
Even under a special circumstance of having unilaterally, temporarily
suspended the date of effectuation of the withdrawal from the NPT, we
have sincerely cooperated to the IAEA's inspection activities to secure
the (?continued) safety of nuclear facilities as an expression of our
sincerity to prove the transparency of our nuclear activities for a
peaceful purpose, which even the agency's inspectors admitted as a fact.
The government of the Republic accepted the US demand for an
inspection of Kumch'ang-ni in 1998 under the pretext of a so-called
intelligence data [collection].
Coming from a sincere position to achieve denuclearization on the
Korean peninsula, we froze the graphite-moderated reactors and relevant
facilities while even sacrificing a self-reliant nuclear power industry.
We also made a great resolute decision to switch the existing
graphite-moderated reactor system to a light-water reactor system.
Thanks to the Republic government's constant and magnanimous efforts
[ilkwanhago aryanginnun noryoge uihayo], the DPRK-US Joint Statement was
adopted between the DPRK and the United States on 11 June 1993.
The DPRK-US Agreed Framework, which promised to essentially settle
the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula, was adopted on 21 October
1994.
After the Bush administration came into power, we proposed several
times to hold direct talks between the DPRK and the United States and
firmly insisted on settling the nuclear issue by concluding a
nonaggression treaty so as to by all means prevent the rupture of the
process of denuclearization of the Korean peninsula even when maneuvers
to abrogate the DPRK-US Agreed Framework and scrap the North-South Joint
Declaration of the Denuclearization reached the extreme.
As part of principled and patient efforts, the government of the
Republic proposed new and bold means [saeropko taebomhan pangdorul] to
resolve the Korean peninsula's nuclear issue at the DPRK-US meeting held
at Beijing in April.
The aforementioned facts show that the government of the Republic has
proposed denuclearization on the Korean peninsula early on and constantly
paid all its efforts for its realization.
The Rupture of the Process of Denuclearization by the United States
The United States made it a policy to systematically, completely
scrap the North-South Joint Declaration of the Denuclearization of the
Korean Peninsula and has hindered denuclearization in every way since
this declaration was released.
The United States brought about a nuclear crisis on the Korean
peninsula by stirring up a commotion of a special inspection while
presenting the IAEA at front in July of 1992, which was less than seven
months after the North-South Joint Declaration of the Denuclearization
was announced.
According to the 5 May 2003 AFP report, the United States in early
1994, prepared a sudden surgical operation-style strike against our
nuclear facilities for a peaceful purpose. The then president, Clinton,
also admitted this fact.
Our efforts to realize the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula
met with setback every step of our way because of the United States
[choson pandoui pihaekhwarul sirhyonharyonun uriui noryogun miguge uihayo
korumada chwajol toeyotta].
Instead of removing all kinds of nuclear weapons that are already
stockpiled and deployed in South Korea, the United States even introduced
many depleted uranium bombs, whose use is banned internationally, and
deployed them for an actual war in February of 1997.
The US secretary of Defense and chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of
Staff, who sneaked into South Korea in January 1999, held the 30th annual
[ROK-US] Security Consultative Meeting with the South Korean military
bellicose elements and officially announced a joint statement to strongly
punish us in an emergency by employing all possible means including
nuclear [weapons].
The US harsh remarks of nuclear punishment were a violent behavior
abusing the North-South Joint Declaration of the Denuclearization that
bans manufacture, deployment, and use of nuclear weapons.
The US hostile policy toward the DPRK has reached its peak since the
advent of the incumbent Bush administration and the process of
denuclearizing the Korean peninsula began to be virtually destroyed.
Even before dealing with us, the Bush administration declared our
Republic as their main enemy and the enemy of freedom and publicly
announced to destroy our system. It carried out more persistently the
maneuver to nullify the DPRK-US Agreed Framework and the Joint
Declaration of the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
Upon entering the White House, Bush took out even the DPRK-US Agreed
Framework and revealed his attempt to nullify it. -- South Korean daily
New Korea Times on 23 June 2001
According to South Korean daily Tong-a Ilbo on 17 May 2001, US
President's National Security Advisor Rice submitted a strategic report
entitled Global Trends 2015 to the [US] administration, in which she
officially rejected the Joint Declaration of the Denuclearization of the
Korean Peninsula by putting emphasis on raising tension against North
Korea and bring South Korea into a missile defense system.
On 6 June 2001, US President Bush announced a statement on North
Korean policy, the main contents of which were improvements to the
implementation of the Geneva Agreement with regard to nuclear activities,
including those conducted in the past; regulations on verification of
missile development projects, and reduction of conventional weapons.
The 8 June 2001 edition of South Korean daily, Tong-a Ilbo, assessed
Bush's Statement on North Korean Policy as the virtual declaration of
confrontation policy against the Republic, implying that force could be
employed in the event that our Republic does not accept the US demands
such as approval of nuclear inspections, suspension of missile launches,
and reduction of conventional weapons.
Though it has been the case with the precedent US regimes, the Bush
administration's hostile policy toward the DPRK and war maneuvers were
unprecedented in terms of their dangerous, arbitrary, and brigandish
nature.
The Bush administration's extreme hostile policy toward the DPRK was
more overtly manifested when he designated our Republic as [part] of the
axis of evil in his State of the Union address on 30 January 2002, and
when Campbell, vice director of the US Center for Strategic and
International Studies [CSIS], made harsh remarks in an interview with
Asahi Shimbun on 12 November 2002 that the ultimate goal of the US policy
toward the DPRK was destruction of its regime.
Like its previous regime, the Bush administration publicly asserted
that [the United States] should not wait for us to collapse but advance
[the collapse] even by employing all possible means including nuclear
weapons.
The rumors of North Korean nuclear and missile threat, which the Bush
administration has trumpeted ever since its early days in power, are the
outcome of confrontational maneuvers against the Republic and war policy
to derail the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and suffocate us.
According to the October 2002 edition of the South Korean magazine,
T'ongil Hanguk, the United States conducted a nuclear bombing exercise
against our Republic at a US Air Force base in North Carolina from 1998
and that this kind of exercise was conducted in a larger scale after the
emergence of the Bush administration.
What is particularly serious is the fact that Bush ordered that a
nuclear attack plan be established against our Republic and that in
accordance with this, the US Defense Department drew up a report on
nuclear posture and submitted it to the US Congress.
This report on nuclear posture reveals that the US forces can use
nuclear weapons in case of a contingency on the Korean peninsula and that
they should develop smaller nuclear weapons to be used for destroying
underground facilities in the above-said case, and to this end they
should give up the nuclear test ban treaty -- South Korean KBS broadcast,
15 March 2002
The Bush administration that has been systematically and extensively
destroying the process of denuclearization of the Korean peninsula,
finally made it a policy in March 2002 to mount a nuclear preemptive
strike against seven countries including our Republic.
This is a violent infringement upon the fundamental spirit of the NPT
in which countries possessing nuclear weapons should not threaten other
countries with nuclear weapons or use nuclear weapons; should not create
a state of emergency that endangers the fundamental interests of
non-nuclear states; and exert all efforts to avoid a nuclear war.
Like this, the United States, the world's biggest nuclear power,
abrogated the DPRK-US Joint Statement and the DPRK-US Agreed Framework
and, contrary to the basic spirit of the NPT, made a nuclear preemptive
attack on our country, which is a non-nuclear state, a policy; and, as a
result, the process of the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula has
come to be completely ruptured [irot'ut segye ch'oedae haekpoyugugin
migugi chomigongdongsongmyonggwa chomigibonhabuimunul p'agihago
haengmugijonp'abangjijoyak kibonjongsinebaech'idoege pihaekkukkain
urinaraedaehan haeksonjegonggyogul chongch'aekhwahamuroso chosonbando
pihaekhwagwajongun wanjonhi p'at'andoegedoeotta].
We found this out through the visit to P'yongyang by a US
presidential special envoy in early October last year and realized that
the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula would be a mere fantasy
unless the United States abandoned its hostile policy toward the DPRK.
Consequently, due to the US vicious hostile policy toward the DPRK
and its maneuvers to crush the DPRK, the Declaration of the
Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula has been nullified [kyolguk
migugui angnarhan taejosonjoktaesijongch'aekkwa haegapsal
ch'aektongeuihayo chosonbando pihaekhwa kongdongsononun paekchihwa
toeotta].
A War of Aggression and Physical Deterrent Forces
The most crucial issue in realizing the denuclearization of the
Korean peninsula is to remove the dangers of a nuclear war. However,
the United States has turned South Korea into the biggest forward nuclear
base in the Far East and a strategic nuclear weapons depot; constantly
conducted nuclear war exercises for northward aggression; and mercilessly
trampled the basic spirit of the joint declaration of denuclearization.
The United States mapped out detailed operation plans for northward
aggression and has constantly supplemented them. The nine-day war plan,
five-day war plan, Operation Plan 5027, and Operation Plan 5027-98 of the
1980's and 1990's and the recently disclosed contingency plan are all
nuclear war plans that specified nuclear attacks on us.
The US rulers and warmongers have engaged in practical nuclear
blackmail against us based on the nuclear war plans for northward
aggression. The United States mobilized a total of approximately 16,000
military aircraft in aerial war exercises of various codenames in South
Korea for one month, in January 1992, when the North-South joint
declaration of denuclearization was adopted. This means it mobilized an
average of approximately 500 military aircraft a day in war exercises.
Typical of the military exercises in the first half of the 1990's was
the Team Spirit 93 joint military exercise. The joint military
exercises that the United States and South Korean authorities conducted
after mobilizing approximately 200,000 troops, B-1 strategic bombers,
F-117 Stealth bombers, Patriot interceptor missiles, and gigantic
aircraft carrier groups are, in view of their nature, contents, and
scale, very provocative exercises for northward aggression aimed at
preemptive nuclear strikes against us and reckless test nuclear wars.
A command post exercise was added to the field mobile exercise, and,
as a result, numerous commanders and staff of the US Army, Navy, and Air
Force who will organize and command nuclear wars on the Korean peninsula
participated in this exercise, and warships and state-of-the-art combat
equipment in US bases on the US mainland and in Guam, Hawaii, Japan, and
other areas of Asia and the Pacific and even quick reaction forces were
also mobilized.
The United States resumed in 1993 the annual Team Spirit joint
military exercise, which had been temporarily discontinued, thus
reversing the situation on the Korean peninsula which had been headed for
detente and peace and brought it to confrontation and the brink of war.
The Reception, Staging, Onward movement and Integration [RSOI]
exercise which was staged from 1994 instead of the Team Spirit exercise
was a nuclear war exercise for war of aggression whose aim was to rapidly
hurl overseas US troops and equipment into an actual war in case of
emergency. The RSOI has gained in scope every year.
The Ulchi Focus Lens exercise, which began in 1976, and the Foal
Eagle joint military exercise, which began in 1961, have been conducted
in high intensity every year, which has extremely aggravated the military
situation on the Korean peninsula.
The United States staged more than 10,000 war exercises for northward
aggression from the ceasefire to 1999, counting only large nuclear war
exercises, and a total of 20 million troops were involved in them.
For the last 10 or so years following the announcement of the
North-South joint declaration of denuclearization, the United States
perpetrated more than 2,000 cases of practical nuclear blackmail and
military provocation in the sky, sea, and land.
The acts of blackmailing and threatening us with nuclear weapons
became all the more undisguised after the emergence of the Bush
administration.
This is clearly proved by the official report that the number of war
exercises for northward aggression staged in South Korea in 2001, the
Bush administration's first year in office, was double that of 2000, the
last year of the Clinton administration.
In March last year, the Bush bellicose group staged the largest-ever
nuclear war exercise against the North, a combination of RSOI and Foal
Eagle exercises. Involved in it were nearly 700,000 troops, more than
three times as many as those involved in the Team Spirit joint military
exercise staged in 1989, the biggest in its scale.
In one month, from 4 March to 2 April, the United States conducted
the Foal Eagle joint military exercise and RSOI exercise after mobilizing
the largest forces in history. Moreover, it kept state-of-the-art
equipment and part of the mechanized unit of ground forces, including
F-117 Stealth fighter-bombers and F-15E fighter-bombers, deployed in
South Korea until the present, when the war exercise was over.
The US Defense Department ordered the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson,
which had participated in the joint military exercise, to remain in seas
near the Korean peninsula.
Military experts viewed that this is a military measure to quickly
respond to a contingency related to the North. This is no coincidence.
A columnist of The New York Times revealed that one of the most
secretive and scariest operations currently underway in the US Department
of Defense was a military attack plan against the North.
In a news conference with foreign correspondents on 7 April, the
commander of Carrier Group Three in charge of the aircraft carrier Carl
Vinson openly stated that they are watching North Korea.
The US reckless nuclear war exercise is aggravating the dangers of a
nuclear war on the Korean peninsula everyday and every hour, and is a
basic element that ruptures the process of denuclearization of the Korean
peninsula.
After the end of the East-West Cold War, the United States, which
assumed itself to be the international policeman and the only superpower
in the world, strengthened its nuclear threats and war maneuvers not only
on the Korean peninsula but also on international stage.
Aggression and tyranny are the innate methods of survival for the
United States.
US foreign policy, whose contents are based on world domination
strategy, is characterized as barbaric state terrorism that pays no
attention to international law and as a nuclear threat and exercise of
authority against sovereign states.
In particular, after the 11 September incident, the United States
divided the world into good and evil using its subjective standards. It
then more openly perpetrated aggression against countries that it did not
fancy and sought to change their regimes, in the name of combating
terrorism.
The United States expelled the Taliban regime by starting the war in
Afghanistan under the pretext of arresting Bin Ladin in October, 2001.
In this process, the United States unhesitatingly killed innocent
civilians and devastated the country by using weapons of mass
destruction, such as BLU 82 fuel evaporator bombs that are known as the
worst conventional bomb after the tactical nuclear bomb.
On 20 March this year, the United States provoked the war of
aggression in Iraq to overthrow the Saddam regime under the pretext of
finding weapons of mass destruction. In the war in Iraq, the United
States mobilized vast military forces, such as 300,000 troops, 960
planes, 115 warships including 6 aircraft carriers, 2,000 tanks, and
hundreds of armed vehicles, and precision guided weapons.
The United States launched up to an average of a thousand raids a day
by mobilizing air forces three times larger than during the Gulf war in
1991. It also used cluster bombs and depleted uranium shells, which are
forbidden by the international treaty, and indiscriminately tested all
sorts of new weapons.
US-espoused nuclear suspicion, suspicion of development of weapons of
mass destruction, and suspicion of terrorism support are all to find an
excuse to wage war. Also, the war in Iraq proved that sincerely
accepting disarmament through so-called inspections by international
agencies does not prevent war but, rather, invites war.
Neither the heightened public opinion, opposition from big powers,
nor the UN Charter could prevent the US aggression against Iraq.
The bloody lesson of the war in Iraq for the world is that only when
a country has physical deterrent forces and massive military deterrent
forces that are capable of overwhelmingly defeating any attack by
state-of-the-art weapons, can it prevent war and defend its independence
and national security.
The reality shows that, under circumstances in which the United
States does not show any political will or intent to abandon its hostile
policy toward the DPRK, the issue of us equipping ourselves with our own
physical deterrent forces is an urgent demand for preventing a nuclear
war from breaking out on the Korean peninsula and guaranteeing peace and
security in the world [hyonsirun migugi taejosonjoktaesijongch'aegul
p'ogihal kuotton chongch'ijok uijina uisado poijiankoinnun chogoneso
chach'eui mullijok okcheryogul kach'unun munjega chosonbandoeso
haekchonjaengui palbarulmakko segye p'yonghwawa anjonul pojanghanundeso
cholsilhan yonguro nasogo ittanungosul sisahaejugoitta].
We will more strongly consolidate our massive self-reliant defense
forces that are capable of thoroughly responding to US air strikes with
air strikes and US ground strategies with ground strategies and, thus,
annihilate the aggressors at a blow [urinun migugui kongjungt'agyogenun
kongjungt'agyoguro chisangjollyagenun chisangjollyaguro ch'oljohi
taeunghayo ch'imnyakchadurul ilkyoge somyolhalsuinnun makkanghan
chawijokkukpangnyogul toukt'unt'unhi tajyonagalgosida].
These facts clearly show that the United States is the ringleader
that violated the North-South Joint Declaration of the Denuclearization
of the Korean Peninsula and ruptured the process of denuclearization of
the Korean peninsula. They also show that the United States is the
cancer-like existence that endangers peace and security of the world,
including the Korean peninsula, through nuclear threats and war maneuvers
by engaging in tyranny as the world's only superpower.
The United States is wholly responsible for today's aggravated
confrontation between the DPRK and the United States and for fostering a
grave situation in which a crisis of nuclear war is created.
The US destruction of the process of denuclearization of the Korean
peninsula, which goes against mankind's aspiration and desire to
establish an international order of peace, progress, reconciliation, and
cooperation, will by all means be judged by history due to its
reactionary and grave character.
[Dated] 12 May 2003 Chuch'e 92, P'yongyang
[Description of Source: P'yongyang Korean Central Broadcasting Station in
Korean -- DPRK-owned central radio network]