KCNA Commentary on Confrontational Declaration of U.S.-ROK Alliance

KCNA Commentary on Confrontational
Declaration of U.S.-ROK Alliance

Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) — Recently the U.S. and the ROK made
public the "joint fact sheet" of the Kyongju U.S.-ROK summit agreement and
the "joint statement" of the 57th U.S.-ROK annual security consultative
meeting.
The joint agreement documents, published for the first time after the regime
change in the U.S. and the ROK, reveal the true colors of the confrontational
will of the U.S. and the ROK to remain hostile towards the DPRK to the end
and predicts the future of the U.S.-ROK alliance that will get more dangerous
and warns in advance the regional security situation that will become more
unstable owing to it.

1. Hostility towards the DPRK and the confrontational ideal become policy
again
The announcement of the agreement on the recent U.S.-ROK summit was the
most vivid manifestation of the keynote of the policy toward the DPRK of the
present U.S. administration which is nearing one year in office.
The U.S. positively promised to achieve the "complete denuclearization of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea" together with the ROK at the summit
level and this is an intensive expression of their confrontational will to deny
the constitution of the DPRK to the last. It proves that their only option is
confrontation with the DPRK.
This put an end to the burning question among media and experts about the
true nature and orientation of the present U.S. administration's policy toward
the DPRK, and the whole international community, as well as the DPRK,
further confirmed their view on the U.S. stand towards the DPRK.
The U.S. and the ROK rulers have replaced the words of the "complete
denuclearization on the Korean peninsula" which they touted for mere form's
sake in the past with the ones of the "complete denuclearization of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea". It is the unanimous assessment of
the international community that it is neither more or less than denying the
entity and the existence of the DPRK.

This being a fact, the U.S. is talking about the implementation of the past
DPRK-U.S. agreement which has been scrapped and nullified by the U.S.
itself. This is the height of shamelessness and the way of thinking of Yankees
that has made self-conceit their inveterate habit.
What we are faced with is not the past reminding us of disillusionment with the
U.S. but the reality in which the U.S. reaffirmed its offer of "extended
deterrence" to the ROK by mobilizing all means including nuclear weapons,
pledged to strengthen cooperation through the Nuclear Consultative Group
and affirmed that the primary target of the U.S. forces in the ROK is the
DPRK.
The U.S. allowed the ROK's possession of nuclear submarine, disregarding
the danger of the global nuclear arms race to be incurred by the nuclear
proliferation to a non-nuclear state, and gave green light for the enrichment of
uranium and the reprocessing of nuclear waste fuel, thus laying a springboard
for its development into the "quasi-nuclear weapons state". This is an intuitive
view of the U.S. dangerous attempt at confrontation.
The results of the U.S.-ROK collusion based on the hostile view on the DPRK
and the confrontational ideal are a microcosm of the anti-DPRK
confrontational moves and escalation of tensions of the U.S. and the ROK
which became more blatant since the emergence of the present U.S.
administration.
This year alone, under the pretext of "demonstrating the ROK-U.S. alliance
and increasing inter-operability", dozens of joint military exercises have been
staged without any gap of time and the U.S. strategic means made frequent
trip to the Korean peninsula (nuclear carrier for two times and strategic
bomber for three times) started with the nuclear submarine Alexandria's entry
into Pusan port in February last. This proves that the U.S. intention to be
hostile towards the DPRK remains unchanged with consistency irrespective of
regime change.
Days ago, the George Washington nuclear carrier taskforce, which had
entered Pusan Port under the pretext of "supply of materials" and "rest of
sailors", staged large-scale joint naval drills with the ROK navy. This
reaffirmed the purpose of frequent deployment of strategic means which is to
master the ability to fight a war against the DPRK.

Various bilateral and multilateral alliances, coalitions and consultation groups
exist in the world under freewheeling pretexts, but there will be no such nexus
of conspiracy as the U.S.-ROK alliance which directly targets a sovereign
state and openly stipulated the confrontation with it as the line of the alliance.

2. Master and servant relations thoroughly serving realization of "America
First" become Intensified
The ROK economy and national defence have been thoroughly subordinated
to the realization of the self-righteous and hegemony-oriented "America-first".
This is the most tangible "success" of the U.S.-ROK confabs.
The U.S. forced the ROK to pay tribute with astronomical amount of money
that can completely drain the already vulnerable national economy in return
for "slashing" the general tariff rate on the ROK to 15 percent, thus thoroughly
turning the ROK economy into the colonial contract economy for the U.S.
"economic prosperity".
On the other hand, the ROK decided to lift import restrictions on U.S. surplus
goods including automobiles, foodstuffs and agricultural products and remove
non-tariff barriers and thus opened its domestic market to the U.S.
This reminds the people of the humiliating and unequal Treaty of Jemulpo
which granted the U.S. many economic privileges and restricted the Korean
feudal government to provide the U.S. with privileges more than 140 years
ago.
The tragedy of Jemulpo has clearly repeated in the military field.
The U.S. has more positively induced businesses of the ROK to participate in
the "MASGA" plan for restoring the U.S. shipbuilding industry and reduced
shipyards and harbors in the ROK into the repair, supply and maintenance
bases for U.S. warships.
Meanwhile, the ROK pledged to increase the defense cost by 3.5 percent of
its GDP for the first time as a non-NATO member among the U.S. treaty allied
nations and thus was awarded the title of "exemplary ally" by the U.S.
In particular, the ROK decided to purchase U.S.-made weapons worth 25
billion US dollars and offer 33 billion US dollars for the upkeep of the U.S.
forces in the ROK, coming under a yoke of the U.S. munitions industries by

offering a brisk market for them by itself. This illuminates the master and
servant relations between the U.S. and the ROK what they call the "best blood
alliance".
The reality goes to prove that the alliance between the U.S. and the ROK is
by no means the reciprocal and equal relations between states, but the
relations between master and servant and that it serves as the straight road
for realizing "America first" which seeks only the interests of the U.S. but
totally ignores those of the ROK.

3. Dangerous nexus between the U.S. and the ROK extending to the globe
beyond the regional range
The U.S. strategic scenario to use the ROK as a shock troop for realizing its
Indo-Pacific strategy for holding the hegemony over the Korean peninsula,
Northeast Asia and the rest of the Asia-Pacific region has been fully revealed
through the present occasion.
The U.S. and the ROK agreed to boost the conventional deterrence posture
under the pretext of coping with all regional threats to their allies and talked
about the importance of ensuring "freedom of navigation" and peace and
stability in the Taiwan Channel, revealing their sinister intention to deny
territorial integrity and core interests of sovereign states in the region and
openly interfere in the affairs in the international conflict areas.
They also decided to further intensify the tripartite drills, information sharing
and military exchange for strengthening the U.S.-Japan-ROK tripartite military
cooperation and thus shaped as their policy the course of military action to
promote the U.S.-ROK alliance to an entity of global military alliance, not a
mere regional bloc.
In particular, the U.S. approval to the ROK's possession of nuclear submarine
is a serious development that destabilizes the military security situation in the
Asia-Pacific region beyond the Korean peninsula and causes the situation of
impossible nuclear control in the global sphere.
The fact that the plan for building a nuclear submarine was secretly promoted
in 2003 proves that the ROK's ambition to possess nuclear submarines is
neither a "reflective measure" to cope with the DPRK's access to nuclear
weapons nor a matter of defensive nature to cope with "regional threat" but

the most dangerous step to open up the gate of realizing its long-cherished
ambition to possess nuclear weapons.
The ROK's possession of nuclear submarine is a strategic move for "its own
nuclear weaponization" and this is bound to cause a "nuclear domino
phenomenon" in the region and spark a hot arms race.
The U.S. hegemonic scenario to encircle and contain rivals by forming a U.S.-
led NATO-style security structure in the Asia-Pacific region by putting the
U.S.-ROK alliance on a regional and modern basis is being translated into
reality in detail. Such reality requires a more awakened way of looking at the
regional and international security situation that will get more unstable and
redoubled efforts to cope with it.
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The U.S. and the ROK are openly ignoring the DPRK's legitimate security
concern and aggravating the regional tension. Their provocative acts prove
the correctness of the option of the DPRK which has indomitably covered the
road of defending peace and security with practical acts, not words, properly
informing the world community where the root of the instability on the Korean
peninsula is.
The DPRK will take more justified and realistic countermeasures to defend the
sovereignty and security interests of the state and regional peace,
corresponding to the fact that the confrontational intention of the U.S. and the
ROK to remain hostile towards the DPRK was formulated as their policy once
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