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No 33/24
1. Article of International Affairs Analyst 2. Press Statement by Spokesperson for Disarmament and Peace Institute of DPRK Foreign Ministry 3. Press Statement of Head of External Policy Office of DPRK Foreign Ministry
Article of International Affairs Analyst Pyongyang, September 14 (KCNA) -- The full text of an article contributed by Kim Myong Chol, an international affairs analyst, titled "The exclusive expansion of bloc will only accelerate the U.S. strategic defeat" says: Three years have passed since the U.S. cooked up the exclusive nuclear security technology alliance system AUKUS with Britain and Australia. The past three years are the period in which the true colors of AUKUS have been clearly proved as a serious threat to the nuclear non-proliferation system, a propellant of arms race and a disturber of the regional strategic balance. The U.S. is insisting that AUKUS is not targeting any specific country and has no effect on the nuclear non-proliferation system. But it is nothing but flowery words to patronize its exclusive policy on strengthening the alliance. The Korean peninsula and the Asia-Pacific region are plunged into a more unstable situation due to the confrontational behavior of the U.S. that is resorting to the Cold War way of thinking and inter-camp confrontation which are totally opposed to the desire of mankind for global peace and stability.
U.S. which thrust dagger onto its ally's back As regards AUKUS, fabricated on September 15, 2021, the French foreign minister strongly denounced it as an act of thrusting a dagger onto the ally’s back, not a matter of scrapping the submarine contract which had been pushed forward between France and Australia. The Biden administration had been advertising the "importance of alliance and the strengthened alliance", arguing that "the U.S. has come back". But the fact that it suddenly betrayed its ally in Europe is still now sparking off great shock and doubts of the international community. However, the appearance of Australia changing as an outpost for the U.S. and the move of AUKUS widening its fence give an answer to a question why the U.S. thrust a dagger onto the back of France. Firstly, the U.S. is turning Australia into a powerful military ally capable of containing independent and sovereign states in the Asia-Pacific region through the transfer of nuclear-powered submarine technology. The U.S., together with the UK, is taking the lead in helping Australia possess a fleet composed of eight nuclear-powered submarines by 2055 and has expanded the ultra-modern military technology cooperation among three countries into the development of hypersonic weapons, eased the restrictions of military technology and arms export and built on an extensive scale facilities for operating its nuclear strategic assets and ultra-modern military hardware in Australia from 2022. It has systematically delivered weapons and equipment such as Tomahawk cruise missiles, ship-to-air interceptor missiles and attack helicopters to Australia and supported the manufacture and export of missiles in Australia. Secondly, the U.S. is trying to develop AUKUS into a multilateral military bloc in which more allies are involved. Now, the officials concerned of the U.S. administration, whenever they have the opportunity, repeatedly claim that the door to AUKUS is open to the partners if they judge it is proper for them to join it. The U.S.-Britain-Australia tripartite defense authority talks in April made public a "joint statement" on examining a proposal for promoting cooperation between AUKUS and Japan in the field of ultra-modern technology. And the U.S.-Japan summit held in Washington agreed on the issue on the cooperation between AUKUS and Japan in eight fields of core defence technology including artificial intelligence and cyber. The U.S. is also mulling involving the ROK, New Zealand, Canada and other allies into AUKUS in the capacity of "partners", saying that it is necessary for AUKUS to cooperate more closely with such countries as the ROK in the Indo-Pacific region. All facts go to prove that the U.S. thrust a dagger onto the back of its ally, proceeding from a politically-motivated calculation to expand relations of alliance with its vassal forces into a multilateral military bloc based on nuclear weapons and secure a strategic superior in the region.
AUKUS arousing backlash from international community As soon as AUKUS made its ill-natured appearance, it has been the target of denunciation and rejection by many countries. Russia denounced the U.S. and its allies for pursuing a long-term confrontation in the region, terming AUKUS "NATO of Asian version". China censured AUKUS for threatening a regional peace and stability and sparking arms race as a security mechanism acting according the baton of the U.S. Meanwhile, the Southeast Asian countries neighboring Australia asserted that big powers should not do an act of infringing upon the interests of other countries with high-handed practice, saying that the Australian government is playing a “role of the police” of the U.S. in the region. Many media and experts on security are expressing the concerns that the fabrication of AUKUS is little short of opening the "nuclear box of Pandora". The assertion of regional countries and experts is by no means groundless. The fact that 160 nuclear warheads can be manufactured with highly enriched uranium, the fuel for the nuclear-powered submarines to be transferred to Australia, shows that the activities of AUKUS are very likely to lead to Australia's nuclear armament. And the reality proves that the U.S. is further inciting the wild ambition of the regional allies including Japan and the ROK for nuclear weaponization as it is transferring nuclear-powered submarines and their technology to Australia. The “desire for joining” AUKUS is growing with each passing day among Japan, ROK and other satellites of the U.S. and it predicts that the international nuclear non-proliferation system will be hardly hit in succession. The exclusive and confrontational nature of AUKUS targeting a third country is further arousing the caution of regional countries. The U.S. claimed that AUKUS does not target a special state in an early period but, recently, is not hiding the fact that AUKUS targets the independent and sovereign states in the region. High-ranking officials of the U.S. administration said that AUKUS regards China, Russia and the DPRK as the "threats" to the India-Pacific region, revealing the black-hearted intention of the U.S. to contain sovereign states through AUKUS. Viewing the reality in which the U.S. is resorting to its "lattice-like fence alliance" policy on organically combining its allies across the world, it is a matter of time for AUKUS to merge with the U.S.-led political and military blocs including the U.S.-Japan-ROK triangular military bloc, SQUAD and QUAD. And it will further fix the structure of the new Cold War in the region. This is a clear reason why the international community is expressing strong repugnance and caution against AUKUS.
Washington's policy on expanding blocs accelerates its strategic defeat The present U.S. administration is loudly advertising the fabrication and expansion of various blocs like AUKUS as its "diplomatic achievements", claiming that it is promoting the U.S. strategic value and interests. But if anyone with an elementary understanding of the external crisis facing the U.S., he will know with ease that the above-said claim is very cross-sectional. In January this year, the U.S. magazine National Interest said that the U.S. is being put in a dilemma for its excessive interference in various regional issues and the expanded friction of regional countries resulted from it. It raised the question "Still is the U.S. the only superpower in the world?" As a matter of fact, the U.S. policy on expanding its alliance, which is being enforced worldwide, is further weakening its strength and exposing it to a more critical situation. First of all, the debt crisis of the U.S. is getting more serious day by day as the present U.S. administration is spending an astronomical amount of money on the arms buildup for maintenance and expansion of blocs and on the operation of overseas military bases and is running high fever in the military support for pro-U.S. states including Israel and Ukraine. The U.S. impudent patronage for its allies, which are resorting to military confrontation and massacre of civilians, is leading to the decline in its influence in the region and serving as a catalyst for inciting anti-U.S. sentiments across the world. In particular, the U.S. moves for the confrontation between camps to encircle and contain independent and sovereign states through the establishment of the global military alliance are compelling sovereign states to bolster up their self-defensive strength in every way and form and strengthen the just strategic axis for suppressing and foiling the aggressive military blocs. This predicts that the more desperately the U.S. resorts to its policy on expanding blocs, the more it will plunge into an inescapable strategic maze. The appearance of the U.S. seeking the confrontation between camps reminds one of the old Roman Empire which had been doomed to ruin, not the "only superpower". The just international community will never tolerate the U.S. confrontation moves of violating peace and stability in the region and the rest of the world through its reckless policy for hegemony and bloc expansion but will counter them with strong strength. Washington’s exclusive bloc expansion will be a decisive factor in accelerating the U.S. strategic defeat.
Press Statement by Spokesperson for Disarmament and Peace Institute of DPRK Foreign Ministry Pyongyang, September 13 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Disarmament and Peace Institute of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Friday released the following press statement "The collective confrontational cooperation against the DPRK will be accompanied by the strengthened formation of strategic axis for improving the security environment of the region": The U.S. and its vassal forces held the second defense authority meeting between the ROK and member nations of the "UN Command" on September 10. Their moves to revitalize a tool for war and confrontation, which usurped the signboard of the UN, on the Korean peninsula are arousing a serious concern of the international community. Another anti-DPRK confrontation confab was held in the name of the "UN Command" whose dismantlement was declared by the international community decades ago. This is an insult to the inviolable UN and the UN Charter and one more important occasion judging who is the illegal force inciting military conflict in the Korean peninsula. A "joint statement" adopted after the meeting shows that the U.S. is buckling down to drawing member states of the "UN Command" into different joint military drills of aggressive nature to make them proficient in its-led war scenario and substantially enhance their capabilities to fight a war. Terming the U.S. and its vassal forces' confrontational movement an extremely dangerous political and military provocation that causes security imbalance and escalates the danger of war in the Korean peninsula and the region, we resolutely denounce and reject it. The expansion of the "UN Command" is a prelude to the establishment of "NATO of Asian version" which will result in pushing the Asia-Pacific region deeper into the structure of new cold war, not easing the military tensions in the Korean peninsula and the region. When taking into consideration the fact that the revival of the "UN Command" is further increasing the possibility of military conflict in the Korean peninsula by stirring up the war hysteria of the ROK military gangsters running amuck in the military confrontation with the DPRK, the danger of such moves can never be overlooked. Moreover, if countries in different regions take part in the moves to revive the "UN Command", blindly following the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK, military conflict in the Korean peninsula will not be confined to the one between the DPRK and the U.S. but will inevitably lead to the start of a new world war. It is an essential requirement for the national security and the region's peaceful development to steadily improve the strategic force capable of deterring and weakening the hostile countries' will for war provocation. The U.S. and its vassal countries' collective military confrontation against the DPRK will serve as a motive and catalyst for accelerating the formation and development of a just strategic axis that thoroughly disallows the imbalance of power in the Korean peninsula and the region. The DPRK will steadily take a new strategic counteraction to contain and frustrate the reckless confrontation moves of the hostile forces to disturb peace and stability in the Korean peninsula by mobilizing the illegal war organization.
Press Statement of Head of External Policy Office of DPRK Foreign Ministry Pyongyang, September 13 (KCNA) -- The head of the External Policy Office of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea released the following press statement "The U.S. instigating NATO and agents to confrontation with Russia is a serious threat to Europe" on September 13: Recently, U.S. Secretary of State Blinken groundlessly slandered the cooperation based on mutual benefit and equality between the Russian Federation and other sovereign states, and committed a political provocation terming it a "threat" to Europe. This clearly shows the U.S. sinister intention to overstate the "security crisis" of European countries and shift the blame for the present Ukrainian situation on to a third party and thus more firmly rally its followers on the anti-Russian front and give "legality" and continuity to its confrontation moves. The DPRK Foreign Ministry expresses strong regret over the fact that the U.S. top diplomat slandered independent sovereign states while distorting the essence of the Ukrainian situation with extremely irresponsible and improper words, and categorically rejects this. The U.S. secretary of State is trying to deceive the international community, turning black into white, but such attempt can neither cover up nor deny the fact that the U.S. is the root cause of the outbreak of the Ukrainian crisis and its prolongation and instability of the situation in Europe. It is none other than the U.S. which caused the Ukrainian crisis by inciting the reckless advance of NATO towards the east in disregard of the legitimate security interests of Russia and its territorial integrity, with the wild dream to establish unipolar supremacy. The U.S. is also the arch criminal as it has systematically handed over to Ukraine such lethal weapons and equipment as Abrams tanks, F-16 fighters and ATACMS long-range missiles in a bid to bring a strategic defeat to Russia, in disregard of the unanimous demand and aspiration of the international community for the early peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian situation, and caused innocent civilian damage and long-term catastrophe. It is also the U.S. which committed to deploying in Europe long-range missiles targeting Russia and has staged NATO-led war drills against Russia one after another and brought a horrible war to the whole of Europe, revealing its intention to lift a ban for Ukraine on the use of long-range weapons toward the depth area of Russia. All facts go to prove that the U.S. is a real threat facing Europe and the international community as it is inciting conflict and confrontation, instigating NATO and agents to the confrontation with Russia and fostering the permanent war. The Ukrainian crisis will never be an opportunity to revive the weakened position of the United States, and the Russian people will surely and triumphantly achieve their just aim. The international community should not tolerate the reckless acts of the U.S., which is getting frantic with the moves for military confrontation after mortgaging the security of Europe in a bid to realize its hegemonic interests, but should defend the regional peace and stability by its concerted efforts. We will as ever invariably support the just cause of the Russian people who are striving to defend sovereignty and build a fair and multipolar world, smashing the imperialists' hegemonic policy and high-handed practices. |