No 23/25
March 24, 2025
1. Press Statement by Institute
for Disarmament and Peace of DPRK Foreign Ministry
2. Credentials of DPRK
Ambassador to Bulgaria Accepted
Press Statement by Institute for Disarmament and Peace of DPRK
Foreign Ministry
Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- The
Institute for Disarmament and Peace of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea on Monday made public the following press statement
"It is our inevitable option to further accelerate the self-defensive
efforts to ensure the security interests of the country from the regional
security environment getting instable day after day":
Despite the serious concern of the
international community, the U.S. and its vassal allies staged the large-scale
joint military exercises Freedom Shield 2025 from March 10 to 20.
Freedom Shield, which has been certainly
staged every year to destabilize the situation in the Korean peninsula, reached
the highest level in its aggressive and offensive nature this year.
The Institute for Disarmament and Peace
of the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK publishes this press statement to inform
the international community of how dangerous and reckless military provocation
the large-scale war exercises Freedom Shield staged by the U.S. and the ROK
under the pretext of "defensive" and "annual" rehearsal are
and why the DPRK's efforts to deter the military moves of the enemy states are
just.
Freedom Shield Started from the Outset
of the Year in Reality
It is a cross-sectional view to construe
that the large-scale joint military exercises Freedom Shield of the U.S. and
the ROK started on March 10.
It is not exaggeration to say that the
U.S.-Japan-ROK joint air drill with the involvement of a B-1B strategic bomber
of the U.S. Air Force in the sky over the Korean peninsula in January was a
preliminary drill for Freedom Shield in reality.
The U.S. has continuously staged various
kinds of joint military drills with its satellites in the region, including the
ROK, from the outset of the year, getting frantic with the creation of
preliminary atmosphere for the full-scale operation of Freedom Shield.
From January to March, the U.S. had
successively staged such joint military drills under different names aimed to
master war scenarios for striking the in-depth area of the DPRK as
"Ssangmae drill", "combined arms live-firing drill", "joint
search drill", "joint integrated firepower live-firing drill"
and "joint special strike drill".
On January 15, it introduced a formation
of B-1B strategic bombers into the sky over the Korean peninsula to conduct a
joint air-to-ground live-firing drill with the ROK. On February 10, it made the
attack nuclear submarine Alexandria call at the Pusan operational base and, on
February 20, mobilized a B-1B strategic bomber formation again to conduct a
provocative joint air drill.
In particular, on March 2, it committed
a military provocative act of deploying in the region of the Korean peninsula a
nuclear carrier strike group, which consists of the nuclear carrier Carl
Vinson, Aegis cruiser Princeton, Aegis destroyer Sterett and others.
Four years have passed since the start
of Freedom Shield, but the U.S. strategic offensive means had never been
deployed in the Korean peninsula in a sequential way and in succession on the
eve of the exercises as seen above.
This proves that this year's Freedom
Shield is a more premeditated and provocative nuclear war rehearsal staged by
the U.S. and its satellites on the basis of full examination of their war
readiness.
Aggressive and Offensive War Drills from
A to Z
The recent joint military exercises
Freedom Shield were conducted in a multi-domain space, including ground, sea,
air, cyber and outer space in an all-round way for the first time in the
history of joint drills staged by the U.S. and the ROK. And the number of
brigade-level field mobile drills increased six times the last year's as it was
16, the biggest in history.
The U.S. involved in the joint military
exercises a lot of aggression forces and military hardware, including the U.S.
Eighth Army, the U.S. Seventh Air Force, the U.S. Space Force, the U.S. Seventh
Fleet and the Third Expedition and the First Division of the U.S. marines.
During the joint military exercises, the
U.S. and the ROK staged such provocative military drills aimed at attack on a
belligerent party as the joint air strike drill of paratroops, the mountain
warfare drill of marine troops, the drills of special warfare troops for
special reconnaissance of enemy's interior and strike at enemy's core
facilities and the drills of armored troops for breaking through enemy's
defense line and occupying major bases.
What should not be overlooked is that
OPLAN 2022, a war scenario under the simulated conditions of "a preemptive
strike" at the DPRK's nuclear facilities worked out according to the
"nuclear operations guidelines" cooked up by the U.S. and the ROK in
July last year, was officially applied to the recent joint military exercises.
A typical example is that the U.S. and
ROK military gangsters staged a joint special warfare drill for
"destroying someone's secret underground tunnel network" and
"removing nuclear weapons" by mobilizing armored and special warfare
forces, reconnaissance drones and artificial intelligence attack robots from
March 17 to 20.
In particular, the U.S. conducted a
U.S.-Japan-ROK joint naval drill with the nuclear carrier Carl Vinson task
force involved in the waters off the Korean peninsula, timed to coincide with
the joint military exercises Freedom Shield.
Lurking behind the war drills the U.S.
staged together with its satellites by mobilizing large-scale marine troops
including the nuclear carrier is its sinister design to link Freedom Shield
with the tripartite joint naval drill and expand the scope of the U.S.-ROK
joint military exercises into the U.S.-Japan-ROK joint military exercises in
future.
As above-seen, this year's Freedom
Shield revealed its offensive nature as a U.S.-Japan-ROK joint military
rehearsal and as a multinational war drill involving even the troops from
twelve member states of the "UN Command".
The threatening nature of Freedom
Shield, which is being turned into a more expanded and offensive anti-DPRK war
rehearsal, fully proves that the enemy states' military attempt to contain the
DPRK by upper-hand in hegemonic strength has developed into a more dangerous
level.
Inevitable Choice by DPRK to Defend
Regional and Global Peace
Shortly ago, international affairs
analysts said that the U.S.-ROK joint military rehearsal Freedom Shield more
clearly shows its aggressive nature of targeting not only the DPRK but also
other countries in the region, adding that this is part of the U.S. world
strategy for securing military domination over the Asia-Pacific region.
Such comments hint that the Freedom
Shield and other various joint military drills staged by the U.S. and its
satellites in and around the Korean peninsula are becoming the core means for
carrying out Washington's strategy for hegemony to contain not only the DPRK
but also strategic rivals in the region and that the U.S. war drills will be
further expanded in the future.
The continuity of military drills for
aggression in the Korean peninsula, where the belligerents are in acute
confrontation and where is under mature condition in which an accidental spark
may develop into a destructive armed conflict, is driving the regional
situation into an uncontrollable state no one can predict.
The fact that pro-U.S. countries
including NATO member states have joined the U.S.-led joint military drills
including Freedom Shield, pursuant to the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK,
predicts that a military conflict in the Korean peninsula will be by no means
limited between the DPRK and the U.S. but it will inevitably lead to the start
of a new world war.
The case of accidental attack by
fighters of the ROK near the southern border of the DPRK on the eve of the
recent Freedom Shield served as a vivid occasion for the international
community to imagine the disastrous consequences to be entailed by the war
exercises being staged by the U.S. and the ROK under the signboard of
"defensive" and "annual".
It is an inevitable option of the DPRK
to make more self-defensive efforts to ensure its security interests from the
regional security environment which is getting instable with each passing day.
The absolute value of defending the
sovereignty and stability is to provide the most powerful war deterrence
capable of always preemptively containing the military provocations of the
enemy states and definitely steering the situation.
The genuine defence capability precisely
means the powerful offensive capability and it is the most confident guarantee
for preventing a war and effectively deterring and controlling any threat and
blackmail of the aggressors to acquire the formidable offensive capabilities no
one can stop, the overwhelming striking capabilities.
The DPRK will steadily upgrade and
bolster up its strong counteraction capability of all categories, able to
overwhelmingly contain any military moves of the enemy states seriously
threatening its sovereignty and security interests, and reliably defend peace
and security in the region and the rest of the world as a responsible nuclear
weapons state.
Credentials of DPRK Ambassador to Bulgaria Accepted
Pyongyang, March 23 (KCNA) -- DPRK
Ambassador Ri Hak Mu presented his credentials to the president of the Republic
of Bulgaria on March 20.
The ambassador courteously conveyed
the greetings from Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea, to President Rumen Radev.
The Bulgarian president expressed deep
thanks for this and asked the ambassador to convey his sincere greetings to HE Kim
Jong Un.
Expressing the stand that Bulgaria would
continue to develop the long-standing friendly relations with the DPRK, he
hoped that everything would go well in the DPRK.
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