Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- The world today is witnessing a phase of detente and positive changes in which regional disputes find political solutions through dialogue.

But it is only the Korean Peninsula where tensions and danger of war persist.

In this regard, the Chinese Magazine Liaowang in its 32nd issue carried an article titled "Lack of confidence is the problem in the security situation in the Korean Peninsula."

It said:

In the wake of recent contact between the north and the south and that between the DPRK and the U.S., in particular, a clear sign of detente was likely to show in the security situation in the Korean Peninsula which witnessed serious unrest and even reached the brink of a war in 2010 and there was a ray of hope for the resumption of the six-party talks.

In the light of a series of periodical cycles of "talks" and "crisis" on the Korean Peninsula people cannot but be cautious about the future trend of the situation on the peninsula.

Uncertainty of the security situation on the peninsula and its actual and potential danger originated from the lack of confidence between those involved in the conflict.

There is the lack of mutual confidence between the DPRK and the U.S.

The U.S. side does not fully respect the regime in the DPRK though it actually exists. The former has long regarded the latter as a state of other category, far from paying attention and taking into consideration on a strategic level its requirements of interests and security.

The main purpose of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK is to encircle and stifle it politically, impose economic sanctions on it and put strategic pressure on it through regular Ulji Freedom Guardian and other joint military exercises in the military aspect.

The U.S. does not hesitate to pursue "brink of war" policy. The DPRK-U.S. relations still remain in the grip of acute confrontation color though there was once a temporary sign of detente during the office of Clinton. The U.S. arms race and military drills, in particular, have been considered as hostility and offensive posture, straining the situation on the Korean Peninsula to an extreme pitch for a long time. Once military conflict breaks out, it is bound to escalate the crisis.

A lack of confidence is the biggest hurdle lying in the way of defusing the tensions on the peninsula and building an effective multilateral security cooperation system in Northeast Asia.

All facts go to prove that efforts to promote the process for multilateral security cooperation in Northeast Asia may prove futile as long as the DPRK and the U.S. lack mutual confidence.

The reality testifies to the fact that the U.S. hard line towards the DPRK can never yield an ideal fruit. What is urgent is for the parties concerned to build confidence.

As the above-said magazine put it, the U.S. unilateral and high-handed policy is a main factor of destroying the fair international relations and fostering mistrust and antagonism, and the root cause of disturbing peace and stability.

The United States is staging madcap UFG throughout south Korea with 530 000 troops including service members of the countries that participated in the Korean War involved.

This is adversely affecting not only the peace on the peninsula but also the development of the situation in the Asia-Pacific region.

It is nonsensical to expect the situation in the region to improve without defusing the tensions on the peninsula fraught with the greatest danger of war in the region.

The U.S. should not merely talk about the peace and security in the region but show its will for peace in action.