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No 29/23 April 8, 2023
1. Underwater Strategic Weapon System Tested in DPRK
2. AUKUS Disrupts International Nuclear Non-proliferation System and Sparks off Arms Race
3. Expansion of NATO Brings New Disaster: International Affairs Analyst
4. Explosive Growth of the Number of Volunteers for the Army
Underwater Strategic Weapon System Tested in DPRK
Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- A national defence science research institute in the DPRK carried out a test of underwater strategic weapon system from April 4 to 7.
The underwater nuclear attack drone "Haeil-2" entered into the test in Kajin Port, Kumya County, South Hamgyong Province in the afternoon on April 4. It cruised 1 000 km of simulated underwater distance in elliptical and "8" patterns set in the East Sea of Korea for 71 hours and 6 minutes. In the afternoon on April 7 it arrived in the waters off Ryongdae Port, Tanchon City, South Hamgyong Province, the place of simulated target, where the test warhead accurately detonated underwater.
The test perfectly proved the reliability of the underwater strategic weapon system and its fatal attack ability.
The system will serve as an advantageous and prospective military potential of the armed forces of the DPRK essential for containing all evolving military actions of enemies, removing threats and defending the country.
AUKUS Disrupts International Nuclear Non-proliferation System and
Sparks off Arms Race
Pyongyang, April 7 (KCNA) -- An international affairs analyst, Ri Jong Su, on Friday released the following article entitled "AUKUS crumbles international Nuclear Non-Proliferation system and sparks off arms race":
Recently the U.S. made public that it decided to sell 220 Tomahawk cruise missiles worth 895 million US$ to be mounted on destroyers and future Virginia-class attack nuclear-powered submarines of Australia. Britain also made it known that 3 billion pounds out of 5 billion pounds of defence spendings to be additionally expended for the coming two years will be allocated to AUKUS.
On March 13, the U.S. president and British and Australian prime ministers released a joint statement at the San Diego naval base in California of the U.S., the home port for the U.S. Pacific Fleet, to the effect that Australia will establish 8-nuclear-powered sub team with the investment of 245 billion US$, under cooperation with the U.S. and Britain, by 2055.
The nature of AUKUS is becoming clear as a product of "new Cold War".
Wrecker of International Nuclear Non-Proliferation System
According to the AUKUS nuclear submarine cooperation plan made public by the three leaders, the U.S. and British nuclear submarines will start regular entry into Australian port from 2023 and 2026 and they will be put under rotational deployment from 2027. From the early 2030s the U.S. will reportedly build three Virginia-class nuclear submarines to sell to Australia and when necessary additionally sell two more. It is also said that particularly it will officially hand over new SSN-AUKUS nuclear submarines jointly built with the introduction of ultra-modern technology of the three countries based on the British design, to Britain by the end of the 2030s and to Australia by the beginning of the 2040s.
The transfer of weapon-grade highly enriched uranium to non-nuclear state Australia by the U.S. and Britain, nuclear weapons states and signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, becomes apparent nuclear proliferation act. This is unanimous comment of the unbiased international community.
However, the U.S., Britain and Australia insist that the contested submarines are not loaded with nuclear warhead missiles and, therefore, do not contravene the international nuclear non-proliferation system.
Lurking behind this is the U.S. arrogance that the world's only superpower can do whatever it is determined, and the blind belief of the vassal states.
The arrogance and over-confidence of the U.S. as the world's first user of nuclear weapons and the world's biggest nuclear weapons state have reached the state of issuing a free pass to the nuclear club for those countries "close to it in terms of race and kindred" and which follow it. This leads to a big hole in the international nuclear non-proliferation system.
If this state is allowed, it is not hard to predict that either the U.S. hands over to Australia a nuclear missile-loaded submarine or there can happen anytime such "big thing" of Australia misusing highly enriched uranium whose original purpose is to be used for nuclear submarine.
Making public this plan, the U.S. president remarked "This first project is only beginning", which meant the expansion of AUKUS with other allies besides Britain and Australia in mind.
There is ample possibility for the AUKUS to be expanded to "other like-minded states" of the U.S. such as Japan and Canada which are so much envious of Australia's "windfall". In this case the international nuclear non-proliferation system will remain just in name only.
The situation shows that the U.S. oft-repeated international nuclear non-proliferation system is a tool for strengthening the exclusive nuclear weaponization of the U.S. and its allies.
Seed of New Arms Race
The end of the Cold War that came along with the disbandment of the former Soviet Union brought new trouble to the U.S.
China, Russia, South Africa, Brazil and other newly developing big powers emerged fast and the multi-polarization has become a world trend that cannot be ignored. This urged the U.S. to look for ways of maintaining its hegemonic position in increasing military expenditure and triggering off new Cold War.
The recent transaction for arming Australia with nuclear-powered submarines will reportedly cost a total of 245 billion US$, which will naturally stoke arms race worldwide, to say nothing of Asia-Pacific.
No country in the Asia-Pacific region eyes Australia situated in the middle of the ocean far away from it.
It is up to the Australian prime minister to explain taxpayers of his country about the squandering of fund running at an astronomical figure for the unnecessary purchase of the nuclear-powered submarines. But giving an understandable answer to Asia-Pacific countries about the reason behind the escalation of tension, creation of instability and triggering of arms race is unavoidable responsibility of the heads of the AUKUS states.
The situation proves that increased military expenditure by the U.S. and its allies has been the cause of regional or worldwide arms races in the last century and the present century.
The U.S. commenced Freedom Shield joint military drill simulating an all-out war against the DPRK from March 13 and staged the largest-ever Ssangryong combined landing drill with the involvement of nuclear carrier Nimitz strike group from March 20 to April 3, after five-year hiatus. It, at the same time, puts extreme military pressure on the DPRK, pushing the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the threshold of a nuclear war.
What can not be overlooked is the criticism against the DPRK made at confabs of the AUKUS heads held across the Pacific, timed to coincide with those exercises.
The British prime minister said "Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, China's growing assertiveness, the destabilizing behaviour of Iran and North Korea all threaten to create a world defined by danger, disorder, and division," in a bid to justify the "necessity" of AUKUS. Noting that the AUKUS will contribute to the regional peace and stability, a high-ranking official of the U.S. State Department said that "We've seen a growth in challenges across the region posed by a host of countries, from the PRC to Russia to North Korea and elsewhere. And again, these challenges are not limited just to the Indo-Pacific, but beyond."
This indicates that AUKUS submarines can emerge in any places essential for maintaining the U.S. hegemonic position whether it is the South Sea of China or the waters off the Korean Peninsula.
Britain sent more than 40 Royal marines to Ssangryong combined landing drill targeting "occupation of Pyongyang" and Australia took part as an observer. This proves that AUKUS can be misused for the U.S. new aggression war attempt on the Korean Peninsula.
The security environment in the Asia-Pacific region daily exacerbating due to the U.S. and its vassal forces proves that the bolstered nuclear war deterrence of the DPRK is a fundamental guarantee for maintaining regional peace and stability and the balance of power.
Expansion of NATO Brings New Disaster: International Affairs Analyst
Pyongyang, April 7 (KCNA) -- Kim Yu Chol, an international affairs analyst released the following article titled "Expansion of NATO brings new disaster" on April 7:
Finland in Northern Europe officially joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on April 4 with the approval of its 30 member states.
As already known, NATO promised not to pursue its expansion targeted at Russia even an inch after the dissolution of the former Soviet Union. But this aggressive military bloc broke that promise and further scaled itself up by accepting 14 East European and Baltic nations as its member states on five occasions from 1999 to 2020.
By granting Finland membership, NATO has reneged again on the "firm commitment" it made before Russia and the world, the sixth of its brazen-faced dishonesty.
Angry Russia strongly reacts to it, saying if Nordic countries join NATO, they will find themselves on the forefront of Russia-NATO showdown, being exposed to a tit-for-tat threat from Russia.
Finland's admission to NATO resulted in an increase of the length of Russia's border with NATO from 1 200 km to 2 500 km. Moreover, the Baltic Sea linking Russia to the Atlantic has turned into a "sea of NATO." In the light of this fact, Russia's reaction is natural.
Time flies along with the arrival of new eras, but the U.S. remains unchanged in its black-hearted aim to strangle its strategic rival permanently and establish a unipolar world under its control by maintaining the worn-out military and political alliance.
To gratify its endless ambition, the U.S. seeks to tighten its control over its junior allies in Asia and inveigle them into realizing its wild dream for dominating the world by establishing Asian-version NATOs like AUKUS and QUAD.
NATO continues its busy advance toward the Asia-Pacific region this year as it did last year. We know well who stands behind this movement and what dangerous strategic scenario lurks behind it.
Recently, Japan and south Korean puppets are working hard to find themselves in the shade of NATO. This provokes concern that another "Ukrainian crisis" might break out in the Asia-Pacific region.
As illustrated by the present Ukrainian situation, any country NATO's tentacles reach is surely torn by armed conflicts and war that cause bloodshed.
Herein lies the gravity of the expansion of the war machine NATO.
A bad beginning makes a worse ending. The U.S. ill-advised strategy to build "global NATO" beyond the boundary of its courtyard called North Atlantic is a pipedream that will end in self-destruction.
Some countries in the Asia-Pacific region trying to jump the queue for the NATO-bound train ticket should bear in mind that NATO is by no means a "cradle of happiness" but the frontline trench to be used by the U.S. as its primary bullet shield and cannon fodder.
Explosive Growth of the Number of Volunteers for the Army
In various parts of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, a great number of young people are volunteering to join or rejoin the Korean People’s Army in a situation, in which large-scale aggressive war exercises by the combined forces of the US and south Korea are being conducted frantically and many strategic nuclear weapons of the US are being shipped into south Korea.
According to a report, on March 17 alone more than 800 000 young people volunteered to join or rejoin the KPA and two days later the number reached 1 400 000.
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