marking the three-month anniversary of the 11 Sep terrorist attack.

Reference:  1.  kpp20011209000033 p'yongyang p'yongyang broadcasting station korean 0450 gmt 09 dec 01

[FBIS Translated Text]     Good evening.     

According to a report by the South Korean news agency Yonhap a few days ago, on 6 December, the US Wall Street Journal carried an article titled, "Bush's Attitude Toward North Korea Is an Element Deepening Tensions Between North and South Korea."

In the article, the paper noted that President Bush's attempt to link the anti-terror war to North Koreaat all costs will become a factor deepening anew North-South tensions on the Korean peninsula. It revealed that the United States is trying to wrap up North Korea in the same bundle with Iraq as the target of the second phase of the anti-terror war. The paper then expressed concern, noting that Washington's recent attitude could touch off a situation similar to the security crisis on the Korean peninsula in the 1993-1994 period.

One can say this is one piece of evidence revealing the Bush administration's provocative and belligerent policy toward our Republic.

In fact, recently, the US ruling class has unhesitatingly babbled belligerent, reckless remarks that gravely provoked us.

According to a Kyodo News Agency report, on 11 December, US President Bush, in a speech at the Citadel, a US military school, blabbed that the next target of the US campaign against terrorism will be so-called rogue states.

As we know, the United States keeps our Republic on the so-called list of rogue states. Under these circumstances, it is not hard to guess the target of Bush's reckless remarks. All these facts show that the US ruling class is trying to move the post-Afghanistan battlefield to none other than the Korean peninsula.

As is known, the United States made eyes at us after the 11 September surprise attacks and in the early stages of the Afghan war, calling for the reopening of talks without any preconditions. This was because an aggravation of relations with us was disadvantageous to them at the time.

At the time, the United States drove into Afghanistan four aircraft carriers that included hundreds of aircraft and some 40 warships it drew in from nearby waters and even from the continental US and tens of thousands of troops for a war against the Taliban, whose regular forces and weaponry are by no means a match for those of the United States.

Not content with this, the United States went to all lengths to attract allies and multinational forces to the war against Afghanistan with all sorts of threats, blackmail, and beggarly diplomacy.   As a result, it killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and Afghans and burned the entire Afghan territory, turning it into ruins.

Elated with this, the United States is now flush with the spirit of a hunter who has caught a tiger and now dares to run amok to do us harm, not caring what fire or ice lay ahead.

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On 2 October, South Korea's KBS-1 radio revealed that part of the wing and maritime combat power of the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, which left Japan, will continue to remain in the West Pacific region to back up the combined ROK-US defense posture.   Eventually, the United States, babbling about a so-called vacuum in combat power and preparing for an unexpected incident, did not draft a single person from the US forces occupying South Korea but instead deployed a battalion-sized Air Force unit.

This is not all.   According to a foreign news report, US Secretary of the Army Thomas White said in an interview with a reporter that US military equipment and military technology in Europe will be moved to Asia, in accordance with the new military strategy of the Bush Administration. Commenting on this, the US newspaper The Los Angeles

Times reported that the move and deployment of the military equipment in

Europe is aimed at the DPRK.   The paper added that a substantial volume of the equipment has already begun to move.   Meanwhile, a European news agency stated that the equipment will be deployed mainly to the US army bases in South Korea.

A few days ago, Schwartz, the commander-in-chief of US forces occupying South Korea, babbled that combat power, including the US forces. Korea, is being reinforced over what it used to be prior to the war against terrorism. I think this is not an accidental remark.

All these facts show that the US babbling about resuming dialogue without preconditions is nothing but a deceitful scheme and that the United States has not abandoned its thieving ambition to rule Asia and the world by crushing us with force, using the Korean peninsula as its stepping stone.

In fact, we can see that the United States has prepared a scenario for the second Korean war behind the scenes of the war against Afghanistan.

The United States is now looking for an excuse to put it into practice and is making every effort to provide justifications and conditions to launch military provocations against us.

This is shown by the fact that a fellow called a spokesman for the US State Department made vicious remarks at an official function a few days ago, saying that the North Korean nuclear proliferation issue is a matter of concern and that it should be discussed at North Korea-US talks.

However, the United States should not miscalculate.   The United States should not forget that our country is not the Iraq during the Gulf War, the Yugoslavia during the Balkan War, or for that matter, Afghanistan.

On 12 October, a Russian newspaper said that if the United States continues to engage in provocations, the DPRK will regard it as a declaration of war.   The Russian newspaper then wrote as follows: The will of North Korea is to respond to a hard-line measure with an ultra-hard-line measure.   P'yongyang, which has waged a consistent struggle for peace, has enough power to smash any violation of socialism and is also full of determination to do so.

The Russian newspaper pointed out as above.   It is better for the United States' belligerent elements not to run amok.   If the US imperialists force war on us, our armed forces will respond to it with a revolutionary war and mete out a thousand-fold punishment on the aggressors. This is our unwavering will and determination. This is all for now.