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Wed, 06/24/2009 - 17:18
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N. Korea condemns U.S. 'hostile' policy on eve of war anniversary
By Kim Hyun
SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Wednesday accused the United States of trying to incite a second war against it and said there can be no peace on the peninsula as long as Washington keeps its hostile policy.
The criticism by the North's state media came on the eve of the 59th anniversary
of the outbreak of the 1950-53 Korean War. Such accusations are routinely issued
in memory of the tragedy.
"More than half a century has passed since the Korean War, but the Korean people
still have vivid memories of the crimes of the U.S. imperialists who provoked the
war," the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
Citing U.S. data on troops and military equipment dispatched to South Korea in
1949 shortly before the war, the KCNA claimed the conflict was initiated by the
U.S., driven by its "ambition for world domination." North Korea initiated the
war after the U.S. and the Soviet Union divided the Korean Peninsula after the
end of World War II.
The North Korean media claimed that new U.N. sanctions over the country's May 25
nuclear test are part of a U.S. scheme to incite a second Korean war.
The U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 1874 earlier this month, banning all
192 U.N. members from weapons trade with North Korea and restricting financial
transactions that could be used to boost Pyongyang's military force.
"This is another ugly product of the U.S.-led international offensive aimed to
disarm and economically stifle our republic so as to rupture the ideology and
system that the Korean people has chosen," the KCNA said.
State media reported on various anecdotes of civilian massacres the North accuses
the U.S. soldiers of committing. Students and farmers held various rallies to
"vow revenge," they said.
The Rodong Sinmun, the North's main newspaper published by the Workers' Party,
said a recent U.S. pledge to provide nuclear protection for South Korea is
evidence of Washington's hostile policy toward the North. U.S. President Barack
Obama promised "extended deterrence" for South Korea during his summit with
President Lee Myung-bak earlier last week.
The paper added that as long as the U.S. does not terminate "its hostile policy
and isolate-and-stifle maneuver against our republic, solid peace on the Korean
Peninsula can never be achieved."
The U.S. has provided a so-called nuclear umbrella for South Korea since the war
ended with an armistice. The fragile truce was never replaced by a peace treaty,
leaving the Koreas in a technical state of war.
SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Wednesday accused the United States of trying to incite a second war against it and said there can be no peace on the peninsula as long as Washington keeps its hostile policy.
The criticism by the North's state media came on the eve of the 59th anniversary
of the outbreak of the 1950-53 Korean War. Such accusations are routinely issued
in memory of the tragedy.
"More than half a century has passed since the Korean War, but the Korean people
still have vivid memories of the crimes of the U.S. imperialists who provoked the
war," the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
Citing U.S. data on troops and military equipment dispatched to South Korea in
1949 shortly before the war, the KCNA claimed the conflict was initiated by the
U.S., driven by its "ambition for world domination." North Korea initiated the
war after the U.S. and the Soviet Union divided the Korean Peninsula after the
end of World War II.
The North Korean media claimed that new U.N. sanctions over the country's May 25
nuclear test are part of a U.S. scheme to incite a second Korean war.
The U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 1874 earlier this month, banning all
192 U.N. members from weapons trade with North Korea and restricting financial
transactions that could be used to boost Pyongyang's military force.
"This is another ugly product of the U.S.-led international offensive aimed to
disarm and economically stifle our republic so as to rupture the ideology and
system that the Korean people has chosen," the KCNA said.
State media reported on various anecdotes of civilian massacres the North accuses
the U.S. soldiers of committing. Students and farmers held various rallies to
"vow revenge," they said.
The Rodong Sinmun, the North's main newspaper published by the Workers' Party,
said a recent U.S. pledge to provide nuclear protection for South Korea is
evidence of Washington's hostile policy toward the North. U.S. President Barack
Obama promised "extended deterrence" for South Korea during his summit with
President Lee Myung-bak earlier last week.
The paper added that as long as the U.S. does not terminate "its hostile policy
and isolate-and-stifle maneuver against our republic, solid peace on the Korean
Peninsula can never be achieved."
The U.S. has provided a so-called nuclear umbrella for South Korea since the war
ended with an armistice. The fragile truce was never replaced by a peace treaty,
leaving the Koreas in a technical state of war.
