THE EMBASSY OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA TO SWITZERLAND
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No 77/26
1. DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesperson on U.S. Groundless "Theory of Cyber Threat"
2. Military Commentator on Moves of U.S., Japan and ROK to Threaten Security in Asia-Pacific Region
DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesperson on U.S. Groundless "Theory of Cyber Threat"
Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA on August 3 as regards the fact that the U.S. incited the atmosphere of denunciation against the DPRK to mislead public opinion about its "cyber threat":
The U.S. and its followers' "joint warning" about the "cyber threat" by the DPRK is nothing but a stereotyped political accusation with a sinister purpose to tarnish the image of our state.
The repeated malicious assertion of the member states of the multilateral sanctions monitoring team merely aims to spread false information devoid of credibility. Such assertion only brings to light the illegality of ghost mechanism the West organized of its own accord and the gravity of its moves for inter-camp confrontation, not a "threatening nature" by someone.
The dishonest forces are now turning the cyber space, which should contribute to peace and co-prosperity of mankind and progress and development of society, into a theatre of confrontation and veiled enmity to pursue their selfish purpose. And it is an undeniable fact that the U.S. should be blamed for it
The U.S., which was the first in the world to form a cyber command, is hell-bent on joint cyber drills including the Cyber Flag with its allies. And it also formed a military-industrial complex for cyber warfare to steadily expand and strengthen its cyber attack force.
The concept of cyber operation, which has been applied to every joint military drill frequently staged by the U.S. with its vassal forces, is by no means for "defense" but part of its war preparations to attain superiority in electronic information warfare and even in battlefields in contingency.
The U.S. moves to form an exclusive camp in IT field, openly asserting that AI is equivalent to nuclear weapons, are worsening the instability of cyberspace on a global scale and causing a new security crisis.
It is illogical that the U.S., which has possessed and operated the biggest cyber force in the world by monopolizing the core resources of cyber space, is talking about "cyber threat" from other countries. And it is a mere excuse for justifying its illegal policy on placing pressure on sovereign states.
The U.S. and other hostile forces' moves to establish hegemony in cyber space, a treasure common to mankind, with the "theory of cyber threat" fabricated with misinformation can never be tolerated.
The DPRK will never allow any politically- and ideologically-motivated attempt of the U.S. and other hostile forces to use the cyber issue as the means of criticism and pressure on other countries, and make steady and practical efforts to defend the security and development interests of the state in all domains.
Military Commentator on Moves of U.S., Japan and ROK to Threaten Security in Asia-Pacific Region
Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) -- Following is the full text of "Threat Posed by the Trinity of the U.S., Japan and the ROK which is settled as a new security crisis in the Asia-Pacific region", an article released by a military commentator on August 3:
Clearly illuminated is the threat by the trinity of the U.S., Japan and the ROK to ensure a military edge by openly ignoring the security concerns of the regional countries and steadily strengthening their ability to carry out the combined war.
This is proved by RIMPAC, the largest-ever joint naval drill in the world, which was recently conducted in the Pacific Ocean, led by the U.S.
It is not a secret that the U.S., which had staged RIMPAC joint military exercises targeting the former Soviet Union since 1971, has steadily expanded the scale and contents of the exercises with the aim of containing the marine advance of other countries and establishing regional hegemony under the pretext of defending the maritime security after the end of the Cold War.
This year, too, the U.S. and its vassal allies conducted more than 500 maritime drills and 2 400-odd flight drills involving over 30 000 troops, above 30 surface warships, five submarines and at least 190 aircraft.
The recent joint military exercises have raised concern of the international community because of not only the large-scale forces and military hardware reminiscent of the Pacific War but also the reality in which the nature and color of RIMPAC, the war drill against the sovereign states in the region, have become clearer and the leading role with which Japan and the ROK have played pursuant to the U.S. hegemonic strategy.
The ROK, which has participated in RIMPAC since 1990, performed the commandership of the joint naval component army commanding the naval forces of the participating countries for the first time, and Japan undertook the deputy commandership of the joint mobile unit in the said drill.
This clearly shows the strategic attempt of the U.S. to strengthen its interoperability with the ROK and Japan under the simulated conditions of a real war and to establish an absolute military hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region by imposing more security burden on them.
The deputy commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet openly said that the commanding role of the ROK and Japan was not a symbolic one but for the actual operation. This goes to prove that RIMPAC, the largest-ever naval drill in the world, is, in fact, a war rehearsal of aggression led by the U.S., Japan and the ROK.
The U.S. is more openly manifesting such military orientation in the region around the Korean peninsula, the biggest hotspot in the Asia-Pacific region.
In July alone, the U.S. and the ROK staged Buddy Squadron air drills under the pretext of strengthening their capability of cooperation in the air and conducted on an unprecedented scale the Combined Joint Sustainment Training aimed at providing logistic support to the ROK from the U.S. mainland and overseas military bases in case of contingency on the Korean peninsula.
The U.S. speeds up the transformation of the U.S. Forces in Japan into a unified military command with independent operational functions with an aim to strengthen cooperation in command control with the integrated operation command of the Self-Defence Forces of Japan and schemes to deploy in the ROK the medium-range strategic missile system Typhon with the regional countries in its striking range after its deployment in Japan.
Japan launched Tomahawk long-range cruise missile it purchased from the U.S. in the Pacific Ocean amid open debate about going nuclear on its own accord, completely throwing away the deceptive mask of "exclusive defense". And the ROK has been developing a nuclear submarine in real earnest, citing the "naval threat" from neighboring countries.
Apparently, the U.S. confrontational racket and reckless acts of Japan and the ROK which avail themselves of the former's moves have already crossed the red line and their ill-looking war alliance is approaching the international community, threatening global peace and security.
The threat posed by the trinity of the U.S., Japan and the ROK is being settled as a new security crisis in the Asia-Pacific region.
It is the DPRK's invariable mode of controlling situation and crisis to response to a threat of new level with a deterrence of new level.
It is needed to keep an eye on and deter the emergence of the U.S.-led "axis of confrontation" which undermines the security of the region and precipitates instability with the aim of establishing hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region.