Maker of the Nuclear Problem
in the Korean Peninsula
Now the United States is clamouring for the “abandonment of north Korea’s nuclear weapons,” finding fault with the nuclear deterrent of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. It fondly ascribes the unstable situation in the Korean peninsula and the region of Northeast Asia to the DPRK’s nukes. This is quite an unwarranted one turning black into white.
Clearly, the nuclear problem in the peninsula came because of the US’s ever-growing provocations for a nuclear war against the DPRK. In January 1958 the US officially made public the deployment of its nuclear weapons in south Korea, but its nuclear threat began in 1950. As soon as the US provoked the Korean war in June 1950, it shipped nuclear weapons into south Korea in mid-August that year for the first time. On November 30, 1950 US President Truman openly mentioned the use of atomic bombs in the Korean front. On the same day an instruction was delivered to the US strategic air force corps “to be on standby ready to send bombers for an immediate dropping of atomic bombs in the Far East.” In December that year MacArthur, commander of the US Armed Forces in the Far East, overtly declared that they would create a radioactive corridor zone in the northern part of Korea ranging from the East Sea to the West Sea of Korea, and that there would be no living creatures for 60 or 120 years in the zone.
After the end of the war the US ratcheted up its nuclear blackmail against the DPRK. In mid-December 1953 the US advanced a new policy at the National Security Council in an attempt to carry out a new war against the DPRK, and later concretized it as the notorious “Red Ford Strategy.” In January 1954 it made public a plan of mass retaliation aimed at using nuclear weapons in case of the start of a new war. Then in July 1957, it announced that it began to equip its forces in south Korea with nuclear weapons, and later on January 29, 1958 it officially publicized the fact that it had shipped nuclear weapons into south Korea. By the mid-1980s the Pentagon brought into south Korea as many as 1 720 nukes of different kinds, including the Honest John tactical nuclear missiles, 280-mm atomic guns, B-61 nuclear bombs and nuclear mines. Consequently south Korea was turned into the largest nuclear arsenal in the Far East and a nuclear outpost for attacking the DPRK.
The “Chart of the existing state of nuclear transport and deployment” of the US troops in south Korea, which was presented to the south Korean “National Assembly” on October 9, 2005 shows that nuclear weapons are deployed in Chunchon in Kangwon Province, Osan in Kyonggi Province, and major cities including Seoul, Taejon, Pusan, Taegu and Kwangju.
The US frantically wages preemptive nuclear strike exercises in the Korean peninsula every year. The war scenarios of the US against the DPRK are geared for a nuclear war aimed to occupy the DPRK by using means of nuclear strike. From the late 1960s the US conducted the “Focus Retina” exercise in collusion with south Korea. This nuclear war exercise has been ceaselessly carried out for over 40 years on the absurd pretext of “annual” and “defensive” one, with various codenames. And the “three main means of nuclear strike” of the US are involved in these joint military exercises.
Watching for a chance to launch a nuclear war against the DPRK, the US went so far as to commit reckless acts of examining nuclear attacks against the DPRK on many occasions. After the incident of its large-sized spy plane EC-121 in 1969 it drew up a plan of emergency nuclear strike. In October 2011 the former US Secretary of Defence Fanetta conveyed to the south Korean defence minister during his tour to south Korea Washington’s stand “to use nuclear weapons if necessary” in case of emergency in the Korean peninsula.
The danger of outbreak of a nuclear war in the Korean peninsula is being materialized day after day due to the US’s reckless moves for nuclear war provocation, and the Korean nation is constantly subjected to the danger. If there had not been nuclear threat and the reckless anti-DPRK war exercises, the nuclear issue would not have come in the Korean peninsula at all, and there would not exist the danger of nuclear war.
It is the US that caused the nuclear issue in the Korean peninsula and ruined peace and security in the Korean peninsula and the rest of Northeast Asia by nuclear threat to the DPRK. It cannot escape from its responsibility for the matter.
Kim Il Bong