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More US Documents on Nuclear Threat to DPRK Disclosed

Pyongyang, October 14 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialists have ceaselessly posed a nuclear threat to the DPRK since the 1950s of the last century. These hard facts were again disclosed by the documents on the Korean War recently declassified by the CIA and several other documents including the confidential documents discovered at the U.S. State National Archives.

According to these documents, U.S. nuclear weapons were deployed in south Korea in the mid-August of 1950 for the first time. In November of the same year U.S. President Truman blustered at a press conference that the U.S. had always positively examined the use of A-bombs. MacArthur did not hide the fact that the U.S. had a plan to drop 30 - 50 A-bombs in the border areas between the DPRK and China.

The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff issued an order to launch an A-bomb attack on the Chinese People's Volunteers with the approval of Truman in April next year only to cancel it. In September and October of the year B-29s of the U.S. Air Force staged madcap exercises for dropping A-bombs in the sky above Pyongyang.

When the U.S. imperialists were examining a new offensive in 1953 to recover from repeated setbacks in the Korean War the U.S. Air Force recommended the plan for the use of A-bombs and reported on the progress made in pushing forward the plan from May to July.

Right after the war the U.S. Strategic Air Command sent to its Air Force Command top secret operation plan "8-53" on massively dropping A-bombs in the DPRK and China.

The U.S. Air Force side requested the authorities to deploy in south Korea more F-84Gs capable of dropping A-bombs.

Meanwhile, the U.S. imperialists stockpiled in Okinawa various type nuclear warheads to be used in another Korean War, bringing their total number to 2 600 in 1967.

A particular mention should be made of the fact that in the 1960s the U.S. imperialists ordered the aircraft of the U.S. Air Force in south Korea carrying nuclear bombs to keep themselves ready for emergency sorties so that they might strike the DPRK within 15 minutes.

In the subsequent period the U.S. military authorities officially admitted the deployment of nuclear weapons in south Korea and in April this year the U.S. Secretary of Defense, when briefing on the report on the nuclear posture review, blustered that the "U.S. had all options on the table", openly hinting at the possibility of nuclear attack.