calendar>>May 20. 2013 Juch 102

U.S. and S. Korea's Groundless Accusation over KPA Regular Military Drill Refuted

Pyongyang, May 20 (KCNA) -- The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea Monday in its information bulletin No. 1038 accused the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet group of pulling up the Korean People's Army over its regular military exercise to bolster up the country's defence capability in every way.

A spokesman for the White House blustered that the DPRK "should honor its commitments made before the international community", terming the KPA's rocket launching drills on May 18 and 19 "provocations". Meanwhile, the puppet group of south Korea in a "statement" let loose a whole string of vituperation grumbling about the "north's provocative action" and urging "responsible behavior".

The information bulletin dismissed this as another unpardonable challenge to the DPRK and an undisguised provocation driving the situation on the Korean Peninsula to an extreme phase.

Their description of the drills as a factor of escalating the tension on the peninsula and in the region reminds one of a thief crying "Stop the thief!"

It is the height of shamelessness for the puppet group to talk about someone's "provocation" as it is hell-bent on the moves to escalate the confrontation with fellow countrymen and ignite a war against the north, while imploring its U.S. master to tighten the military alliance.

They are making desperate efforts to mislead the public opinion through the trumpeting about fictitious "provocations" in a bid to calm down the international community's criticism of their moves to beef up aggressor forces and provoke a nuclear war against the DPRK and escalate their military threat to it.

Lurking behind their renewed smear campaign is a sinister aim to quell the anti-"government" actions of the south Korean people sparked off by the unpopular policy, sex scandal and the like and get rid of their serious ruling crisis.

Facts go to clearly prove that the DPRK's line on simultaneously pushing forward economic construction and the building of nuclear force is entirely just and it is the only way to defend the country's sovereignty and dignity and achieve the nation's reunification and prosperity.

The DPRK will bolster up the nuclear deterrence of the powerful revolutionary Paektusan army, true to the ever-victorious line and wipe out hostile forces to the last man if they dare infringe upon the DPRK's sovereignty even a bit.