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]