Current crisis in Korean Peninsula

On Sunday, The National Peace Committee of Korea (DPRK) issued a statement saying, "United States and the south Korean puppet group finally kicked off the largest-scale combined military exercises aimed at armed invasion of the DPRK in the West Sea of Korea."

It said, "The West Sea of Korea is the most acute and sensitive area where military conflict might break out anytime due to the illegal "northern limit line" unilaterally drawn by the U.S. and the ceaseless provocation of the south Korean puppet group.

"However, the U.S. and the south Korean puppet group kicked off in this area the military exercises with huge aggression armed forces including nuclear powered carrier involved before the recent smoke of shelling disappeared. This is no more than an attempt to find a pretext for aggression and ignite a war at any cost.

In October last they planned to stage the frantic anti-DPRK war games with U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George Washington again involved in the West Sea of Korea only to be checked by the unanimous protest at home and abroad. But this time they carried such scheme into practice at last under the pretext of the Yonphyong Island incident.

"It is the height of folly for the U.S. and the puppet group to browbeat the DPRK with such nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

"The U.S. and the puppet group of traitors will be wholly held accountable for having escalated the tension in the Korean Peninsula and the rest of Northeast Asia and wrecked the regional peace and security with their reckless war maneuvers."

In another statement, Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said:

"The true colors of the arch criminal who orchestrated the recent military clash is being brought into bolder relief with the passage of time.

"No sooner had the Yonphyong incident occurred than the U.S. announced that it would stage joint naval exercises with the south Korean puppet forces with nuclear-powered carrier George Washington involved in the West Sea of Korea as if it had been waiting for it to happen before immediately sending the carrier to the sea.

"This clearly indicates that the U.S. was the arch criminal who deliberately planned the incident and wire-pulled it behind the scene.

"By orchestrating the "Cheonan" warship case the U.S. realized almost all what it had planned. It could maintain its military base in Okinawa though it had been pressurized to transfer it from there and massively beef up its forces in the areas around the Korean Peninsula.

"What is left unfulfilled is the plan to bring the above-said nuclear carrier to the West Sea of Korea.

"The U.S. instigated the south Korean puppet forces to perpetrate an armed provocation against the territorial waters of the DPRK side from Yonphyong Island and was contemplating bringing its nuclear-powered carrier to the West Sea, availing itself of the incident, though it was compelled to cancel its plan to do so three times after its announcement.

"Right after the occurrence of the military clash, the U.S. spearheaded the racket for "denouncing" the incident in unison as "a unilateral provocation" even before probing the truth about it. This proves that the U.S. had carefully worked out the scenario for the provocation in advance.

"The DPRK side warned several times against the enemy's plan for shelling in the sensitive areas around Yonphyong Island and sent a telephone notice on the morning of the very day the incident occurred as part of its superhuman efforts to prevent the clash to the last moment, but the south side preempted the firing of shells into the territorial waters of the DPRK side. The enemy side, however, has kept silent about all these facts.

"Moreover, it is now working hard to dramatize "civilian casualties" as part of its propaganda campaign, creating the impression that the defenceless civilians were exposed to "indiscriminate shelling" all of a sudden from the DPRK side.

"If that is true, it is very regrettable but the enemy should be held responsible for the incident as it took such inhuman action as creating "a human shield" by deploying civilians around artillery positions and inside military facilities before the launch of the provocation.

"The fact that there were human casualties inside the military base clearly proves itself the ulterior intention of the enemy.

"The U.S. regarded the death of innocent civilians as a common practice in the past in a bid to serve its military purposes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and other parts of the world. This inhuman atrocity of the U.S. repeated itself on the Korean Peninsula this time.

"While the incident occurred, the shells indiscriminately fired by the enemy dropped in the area close to civilian houses far from the artillery positions of the Korean People's Army.

"All facts go to patently prove that it was attributable to the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK aimed to carry out its Asian strategy for domination that an unstable state of armistice has persisted and the military tension escalated periodically over the last nearly six decades.

"The U.S. has so far obstructed the solution of any issues related to peace and stability while being keen only to keep the military tension on the Korean Peninsula.

"Peace and stability can never settle on the peninsula but only instability will increase in the region near Korea and the rest of the world unless the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK is brought to an end.

"The DPRK has so far restrained itself with the maximum patience. But the enemy encroached upon the inviolable territorial waters and land of the DPRK by firing live shells in the most sensitive disputed area despite its repeated warnings.

"The counter-shelling of the DPRK was a resolute and proper retaliation against the reckless military provocation of the enemy.

"If the U.S. brings its carrier to the West Sea of Korea at last, no one can predict the ensuing consequences."

From the last statement, it is well predicted that, Pyongyang has left a strong signal of unexpected 'consequence' once the U.S. forces reached the West Sea. It was already reported in the international media about DPRK's huge military strength as well as possessing of nuclear weapons, and no one in the world is willing to see and beginning of nuclear war, which would only cause tremendous devastation to the entire global community.

According to specialists on Asian and Korean affairs, while Communist country like China is gradually becoming important in the global politics, with its excellent foreign policy as well as its ability of communicating the achievements of in various sectors, through very effective measures undertaken by the government in Beijing, DPRK rather greatly lacks in rightly projecting to the international community as to what progresses are already being achieved in that country under the leadership of their leader Kim Jon Il. Despite series of adversities, Pyongyang has already been able to attain remarkable progresses in technological sectors as well as in tremendous success in ensuring mass education. The country also probably ranks as one of the few, where women enjoy fullest respect and freedom in the society. The main reason for DPRK to be on the wrong eyes of several countries is just because of its political ideology, which is based on Socialist theory. But, there is good sign that, DPRK is not at all involved in patronizing terrorism anywhere in the world.

International community can hardly know about positive achievements of the government of DPRK, because the country is yet to come up with an effective presence in the media. The only state-owned news agency, KCNA is merely able to release one or two news items daily, which again are mostly covering day-to-day activities of Kim Jong Il, which are considered by global community as mere propaganda. The news agency lacks in giving proper coverage on the domestic progresses in DPRK in technological sector, empowerment of women, mass education as well as Pyongyang commitment in combating terrorism.

No one wants any outbreak of war in the Korean Peninsula. Both South Korea and DPRK are friends of most of the Asian nations. And, of course, we want a peaceful resolution to the current crisis immediately.

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