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No 19/25 March 12, 2025
1. Press Statement by Department of Press and Information of DPRK Foreign Ministry 2. Press Statement of Spokesperson for Association of Korean Victims of Forcible Drafting and Their Bereaved Families 3. Evil Presage of Dangerous U.S.-ROK Joint Military Exercises: KCNA Commentary
Press Statement by Department of Press and Information of DPRK Foreign Ministry Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- The Department of Press and Information of the DPRK Foreign Ministry on March 9 issued the following press statement "U.S. random exercise of strength will result in aggravated security crisis": The roaring sound of war machinery, full of hostility and mistrust, is being heard from the area over the southern border of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The U.S. is going to stage the large-scale joint military exercises Freedom Shield 2025, an aggressive and confrontational war rehearsal, in collusion with the ROK military gangsters to heat up the atmosphere of the cease-fire region. Despite of the DPRK's repeated warning, the U.S. and the ROK are persistently staging the large-scale joint military exercises. This is a dangerous provocative act of leading the acute situation on the Korean peninsula, which may spark off a physical conflict between the two sides by means of an accidental single shot, to the extreme point. What should not be overlooked is that the enemies are scheming to apply the "OPLAN 2022", aimed at a "preemptive attack" on the nuclear weapons facilities of the DPRK, in the current exercises under the "guidelines for nuclear deterrence and nuclear operations" cooked up and published in July 2024. Such military hysteria of the U.S., which is surely going on irrespective of the policy ambiguity inevitably witnessed with the regime change, clearly proves the instinctive anti-DPRK practice of the U.S. engrossed in sanctions, pressure and confrontation, being seized by its inveterate hostility toward the DPRK. Lurking behind the above-said war exercises, traditionally staged by the U.S. and the ROK, is the persistent and unchangeable aggression ambition of the U.S., which seeks to propagate the American-style view on value and the Yankee-style liberal democracy into the inviolable territory of a sovereign state and finally to overthrow the DPRK government and its social system, just seen through the operational name "Freedom Shield", and of the ROK following the U.S. For its long history alone, the DPRK-U.S. political and military confrontation structure makes one intuitively understand the origin of deep-rooted conflict and the gravity of situation. The structure has been closer to the threshold of explosion due to the frantic U.S. war saber-rattling directly aiming at the DPRK, and its aspect of confrontation is developing into the more dangerous phase. Then, should we regard various military drills staged by the U.S. at any time under such unctuous signboards as annual and defensive as a temerarious muscle-flexing of those frightened at the DPRK's strong defence capability growing in direct proportion to the U.S. nuclear threat or as a comfort means for pacifying its stooge at security unrest? The U.S. and the ROK decided to sharply increase the number of field mobile drills by units of brigade-level and above than last year, simultaneously conduct the second-stage joint command and control drill of the U.S. Space Force present in the ROK aimed at verifying the capability of space operation assistance in the region in case of contingency on the Korean peninsula and employ the generative artificial intelligence on an experimental basis during the joint military exercises. All the facts go to clearly show the multi-domain and all-round offensive nature of Freedom Shield. Obviously, the U.S. intends to push the situation in the Korean peninsula and the region to an uncontrollable phase by ceaselessly staging in a gradual and wavelike way Freedom Shield and other large-scale war drills and thus perpetuate the vicious cycle structure of provocation and tension. It is seeking an anachronistic attempt to gain the advantage of strength in the Asia-Pacific region and realize the geopolitical realignment by expanding the military alliance with its stooges into a comprehensive strategic alliance under the pretext of "threats" from someone. Under this confrontation and hegemony-oriented line of the U.S., strategic means including the nuclear submarine Alexandria, B-1B strategic bombers and the nuclear carrier Carl Vinson are constantly deployed in the Korean peninsula and reckless aerial espionages and all kinds of joint military exercises are being staged one after another. Such acts are increasing the legitimate security concerns of not only the DPRK but also regional countries. In the wake of the said exercises, various anti-DPRK war drills including the one jointly sponsored by the U.S.-ROK Allied Command and the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the ROK are to be conducted more than 110 times, 9.7 percent more as compared with last year. This fact indicates that the military confrontation hysteria of enemy countries will continue as a chronic symptom, not as a single fit. The increase in the visibility of deployment of U.S. strategic means on the Korean peninsula and the U.S.-led bilateral and multilateral war rehearsals reminding one of the actual war prove more evidently that the DPRK should be the most thoroughgoing and more overwhelming in deterring the enemies' various anti-DPRK nuclear war threats. The U.S., which is overusing the toughest high-handed power politics in different parts of the world, has gradually stepped up the actual maneuvers in the Korean peninsula and the region, professing the "demonstration of alliance". They may help to calm down the alienation of its stooges, but it is necessary to mention that they will never act as "plus" to the promotion of security of the U.S. and its allies. The reckless action and unreasonable choice of the U.S. seeking to "solemnly" play the first movement of a war symphony through the largest-ever military provocation this year will act as "minus" to the U.S. security. The DPRK has already expressed its will to continue to exercise its strategic deterrence to cope with the U.S. continued demonstration of military strength. The U.S. should be mindful that its habitual hostile policy toward the DPRK, openly denying the DPRK's legitimate existence and victorious advance, will only add justification to the principle of toughest anti-U.S. counteraction, declared by the DPRK, and face the undesirable consequences, escalated security threat. The trite "succession" to the malicious anti-DPRK practice will inevitably lead to a serious strategic misjudgment. If the ability to judge it is lack, the prospect of the U.S. will be gloomy. The DPRK will redouble its responsible efforts to keep lasting peace in the Korean peninsula and the region through the trustworthy strength accompanied by the radical growth of the nuclear force.
Press Statement of Spokesperson for Association of Korean Victims of Forcible Drafting and Their Bereaved Families Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson of the Association of Korean Victims of Forcible Drafting and Their Bereaved Families issued the following press statement titled "Japanese imperialists' unethical atrocities against Korean people will be surely counted" on March 9: Nearly 80 years have passed since Korea was liberated from the barbarous colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists. But the bloody shouts of the souls of the people who were taken to alien lands by the Japanese imperialists' abduction and died rancorous are still resounding vigorously. After annexing Korea by force of arms in the last century, the Japanese imperialists committed unheard-of unethical crimes. Among the atrocities clearly recorded in the crime-woven history are the historical facts that the Japanese imperialists forcibly took away more than 8.4 million young and middle-aged Koreans and drove them out to the aggressive battle fields and toilsome worksites for bullet shields and labor slaves and made them undergo the wholesale deaths in the large-scale air raids by the U.S. forces. Hundreds of B-29 large bombers of the U.S. forces flew into the sky over Tokyo and Osaka of Japan on March 10 and 13, 1945, the end of the Pacific War ignited by the Japanese imperialists, made massive air raids while dropping incendiaries and other bombs at random. At that time the Japanese imperialists kept Koreans in custody in groups, claiming that Koreans who had been subjected to subhuman maltreatment and humiliation, dangerous and toilsome labor could escape in the confusion of air raids. As a result, many Koreans died an accidental death. According to "Study of War Responsibilities" No.53, the organ of the Japanese Data Center for War Responsibilities, on the damage of Korean people in the large-scale air raids on Tokyo, the war victims are 41 300 and the death toll will far exceed 10 000. Immediately after the large-scale air raids, the Japanese imperialists buried the Korean dead in 67 places of parks, temples and campuses, not investigating their identity, under the pretext of the "emperor's" junket to the area. Later, they committed such hideous unethical crimes as digging out the dead and dealing with the remains of Koreans at will. The Korean victims did not returned to their native places where their beloved parents, wives and children were waiting for even after their death and became the fate of forlorn wandering spirits in alien lands. This miserable fate is entirely attributable to the Japanese imperialists' occupation of Korea and their colonial rule over it, and a direct product of the abduction of Koreans. Nevertheless, the successive Japanese authorities have never paid attention to probing the unethical atrocities at that time and confirming the identity of the Korean victims without any slightest compunction, and have made desperate efforts to bury the forcible drafting in the oblivion of history. Japan formulated it as a governmental stand that forcible drafting of Koreans should not be expressed with "forced labor". And it has issued the guidelines on noting the "forcible drafting" as "mobilization" and "labor draft" in history textbooks, rubbing salt into the unhealed wounds of the victims and bereaved families. Japan should bear in mind that its moves to obliterate its past aggressive crimes and implant its distorted outlook on history into the younger generation, evading its state responsibility for the crimes against humanity, will only add to the debt of its crimes, remaining a shameless country bereft of human ethics and morality in the international community. The forcible drafting and forcible labor of Koreans are crimes committed by the government and military of Imperial Japan with all authority involved, and they are the crime against important ethics and morality, slavery crime and war crime. The international conventional law and statute law on legal prescription stipulate that no prescription applies to the crimes related to basic human rights. Japan, a war criminal state, should make a full investigation into the fact that the remains of Korean victims have been left for 80 years and open to the public the truth. At the same time Japan should make a thorough apology and reparation to the victims and their bereaved families for the thrice-cursed crimes of pushing innocent people into death. It is the unshakable will of all the Korean people to certainly give vent to the deep-rooted grudge of the victims who lost their flowery youth and precious lives due to the forcible drafting by the Japanese imperialists and of their bereaved families. The unethical atrocities committed by the Japanese imperialists against the Korean people during the air raids on Tokyo and Osaka by the U.S. forces will be surely counted.
Evil Presage of Dangerous U.S.-ROK Joint Military Exercises: KCNA Commentary Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- Shortly ago, there occurred an accident showing why the U.S.-led bilateral and multilateral joint military drills, staged frantically in the Korean peninsula, are so dangerous and why they deserve the denunciation by the world people. With the full-scale operation of the worst-ever joint military exercises Freedom Shield 2025 near at hand, there took place a record case of "simultaneous accidental attacks", in which two fighters of the puppet ROK army hell-bent in "firepower demonstration" air-raided a civilian village during a large-scale U.S.-ROK live shell firing drill as prelude to the exercises. It was reported that the intensive dropping of eight bombs, due to the pilots' mistakes in inputting coordinates, caused tens of civilian and military casualties and such property damage as the destruction of private houses and vehicles. Such accidental firing case is a common practice for the U.S. forces and the ROK army, but what merits an attention is the fact that the case occurred near the southern border of the DPRK on the eve of the large-scale joint military exercises simulating a total war against the DPRK. As reported by the New York Times and other U.S. and puppet ROK media, there is no need to explain how the situation would have developed if a bomb had been dropped towards the north a little further to cross the border of the DPRK. The DPRK armed forces are now keeping highly alert to cope with the malicious large-scale joint military exercises of the U.S. and the ROK in the cease-fire area where the Korean War between the DPRK and the U.S. exists in the present continuous form, the most dangerous area in the world in which nuclear forces are standing in confrontation with one another. Under such situation, it is not unreasonable to imagine that an accidental spark might plunge the Korean peninsula and the region and the rest of the world into a new armed conflict. The recent case is no more than an example showing that various kinds of war rehearsals precisely aiming at the DPRK, frequently staged by the U.S. and its vassal forces, are not for "peace and stability of the ROK and the region" as advocated by them, but are the most dangerous and undesirable doings germinating a touch-and-go situation, the world's first nuclear war. Frightened at the danger of such horrible situation, the U.S. and the ROK have now turned Freedom Shield 2025 into a kind of "dumb exercises" prohibiting any live firing. However, they can neither conceal nor quell the danger and gravity of the exercises amplified at home and abroad. Unless the enemy states including the U.S. and the puppet ROK military gangsters stop their frantic war games in the Korean peninsula, a threat to peace and security environment of the DPRK and the region will last forever. The DPRK is keeping a close watch on every reckless military movement of the enemies to cope with any unexpected developments and, if necessary, will go over into a merciless action without warning. Then, they will have no time enough to excuse themselves. The enemies should seriously approach to the evil presage of the dangerous U.S.-ROK joint military exercises and stop at once the nuclear war rehearsals, the root cause of aggravated situation in the Korean peninsula, rather than breathing a sigh of relief.
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