US Moves to Hinder Detente on Korean Peninsula
The US is swimming against the trend for the détente on the Korean peninsula.
At a time when dialogue and cooperation are under way between the north and the south of Korea and an atmosphere for détente is being created on the Korean peninsula thanks to the DPRK's noble patriotism and will for safeguarding peace, the US is kicking up a racket for confrontation through a farce for independent sanctions on the DPRK.
Announcing the sanctions measure for sea blockade aimed at complete shutdown of sea trade of the DPRK with other countries on February 23, Trump openly threatened the DPRK that if the sanctions do not work, the US would go into the "very rough phase 2".
The chairman and the first vice-chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Russian Federation Council contended that the US sanctions on the DPRK give an impression that the US has intent to escalate confrontation, not to settle the issue through dialogue. They added that any strike of the US at the DPRK could result in serious conflict.
The Chinese People's Daily (overseas version) on its February 27th issue noted that at a time when the situation on the Korean peninsula has just been defused and both the north and the south urgently demand dialogue, the US is set to impose "self-righteous" sanctions on the DPRK, thereby pressing "backward acceleration" pedal against the requirement of the times.
It would be foolish to think that the DPRK will be browbeaten by such additional sanctions farce as it has acquired everything it could despite the harshest sanctions in the world for decades.
The situation clearly proves that the US, which cooks up all kinds of sanctions measures and holds provocative war drills whenever there created an atmosphere for détente on the Korean peninsula, is the chief culprit escalating the tension on the Korean peninsula and the disturber of global peace and security.
Recently, it openly declared that it would start Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises in the upcoming April as scheduled while crying out for the resumption of the exercises, thereby openly disclosing its intention to bring dark clouds of a war over the Korean peninsula.
Commenting on this, many countries of the world, including those around Korea, are denouncing and rejecting it as a dangerous act that can chill the atmosphere for north-south reconciliation and push the situation on the peninsula back to the phase of tension.
The Washington Post, the Indian political and diplomatic magazine Political Event and other media of the world commented that if the US pressurizes south Korea into holding large-scale joint military exercises right after the Olympics are over, it would naturally provoke military response of the DPRK and the situation will go back to a touch-and-go one.
The US moves deserve denunciation of the international community as they are aimed at checking reconciliation and unity of the Korean nation and aggravating the situation on the Korean peninsula at any cost, in defiance of the desire and wish of the international community.
The chairman of the US Council of Foreign Relations claimed that if the US seeks to deal with the nuclear issue of the Korean peninsula more reasonably, it should not adopt confrontation mode such as muscle-flexing and malicious word-fighting but go back to the traditional diplomatic mode.
As had already been stressed several times, if the US finally holds joint military exercises while keeping sanctions on the DPRK, the DPRK will counter the US by its own mode of counteraction and the US will be held entirely responsible for all the ensuing consequences.
The US should clearly understand this and exercise prudence.
The international community has to heighten vigilance against the US moves and raise voices against them.
KCNA
At a time when dialogue and cooperation are under way between the north and the south of Korea and an atmosphere for détente is being created on the Korean peninsula thanks to the DPRK's noble patriotism and will for safeguarding peace, the US is kicking up a racket for confrontation through a farce for independent sanctions on the DPRK.
Announcing the sanctions measure for sea blockade aimed at complete shutdown of sea trade of the DPRK with other countries on February 23, Trump openly threatened the DPRK that if the sanctions do not work, the US would go into the "very rough phase 2".
The chairman and the first vice-chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Russian Federation Council contended that the US sanctions on the DPRK give an impression that the US has intent to escalate confrontation, not to settle the issue through dialogue. They added that any strike of the US at the DPRK could result in serious conflict.
The Chinese People's Daily (overseas version) on its February 27th issue noted that at a time when the situation on the Korean peninsula has just been defused and both the north and the south urgently demand dialogue, the US is set to impose "self-righteous" sanctions on the DPRK, thereby pressing "backward acceleration" pedal against the requirement of the times.
It would be foolish to think that the DPRK will be browbeaten by such additional sanctions farce as it has acquired everything it could despite the harshest sanctions in the world for decades.
The situation clearly proves that the US, which cooks up all kinds of sanctions measures and holds provocative war drills whenever there created an atmosphere for détente on the Korean peninsula, is the chief culprit escalating the tension on the Korean peninsula and the disturber of global peace and security.
Recently, it openly declared that it would start Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises in the upcoming April as scheduled while crying out for the resumption of the exercises, thereby openly disclosing its intention to bring dark clouds of a war over the Korean peninsula.
Commenting on this, many countries of the world, including those around Korea, are denouncing and rejecting it as a dangerous act that can chill the atmosphere for north-south reconciliation and push the situation on the peninsula back to the phase of tension.
The Washington Post, the Indian political and diplomatic magazine Political Event and other media of the world commented that if the US pressurizes south Korea into holding large-scale joint military exercises right after the Olympics are over, it would naturally provoke military response of the DPRK and the situation will go back to a touch-and-go one.
The US moves deserve denunciation of the international community as they are aimed at checking reconciliation and unity of the Korean nation and aggravating the situation on the Korean peninsula at any cost, in defiance of the desire and wish of the international community.
The chairman of the US Council of Foreign Relations claimed that if the US seeks to deal with the nuclear issue of the Korean peninsula more reasonably, it should not adopt confrontation mode such as muscle-flexing and malicious word-fighting but go back to the traditional diplomatic mode.
As had already been stressed several times, if the US finally holds joint military exercises while keeping sanctions on the DPRK, the DPRK will counter the US by its own mode of counteraction and the US will be held entirely responsible for all the ensuing consequences.
The US should clearly understand this and exercise prudence.
The international community has to heighten vigilance against the US moves and raise voices against them.
KCNA
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