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November 28, 2005 :: BBC Worldwide Monitoring :: News

A North Korean newspaper carried an article today slamming the United States for researching small “bunker busting” nuclear weapons technology and for pursuing ballistic missile defenses, both as a means to acquire worldwide military hegemony. The text was carried in the Pyongyang Nodong Sinmun as commentary by Choe Hak-chol, and late broadcast on the Pyongyang Broadcasting Station and the Korean Central Broadcasting Station. Some excerpts:

The US warmongers are running amok with more frenzy to realize the ambition to dominate the world militarily. This is intensely expressed by the fact that the US Senate has recently passed a bill that permits relevant institutions to dispense tremendous amounts of money for the expansion of nuclear weapons programme, that the US Department of Defence [DoD] established a plan to deploy anti-ballistic missiles in Eastern European countries as part of building a missile defence system, and that [DoD] perpetrated the test-firing of an anti-ballistic missile in the waters off Hawaii.

…The US imperialists plan to deploy a missile defence system in the East European countries and deliver the newest-type equipment, the same kind mobilized for the establishment of their own country’s missile defence system. This is to militarily bring the neighbouring countries under control and realize military hegemony.

It is merely a deception that the belligerent US classes profess that the manoeuvres to establish a missile defence system for Eastern European countries, such as Poland and Czech Republic, are “to protect all of Europe.”

The US imperialists’ manoeuvres to establish a missile defence system are clearly being perpetrated with the criminal purpose to seize control of military hegemony and to militarily attack other countries. That the US imperialists intend to establish a missile defence system in Eastern European countries is part of a sinister design to form an aggressive missile network throughout the world. In other words, they hope to carry out missile strikes on any region in the world by deploying missiles on the ground, in the sea, and even in space. The US warmongers have already deployed ground-based anti-ballistic missiles in Alaska and California, and are now buckling down to the new deployment of the newest surveillance device “X-band radar” in Japan. In addition, they are planning to begin, in the next several years, the development of satellites equipped with anti-ballistic missiles to terminate imaginary ballistic missiles. The criminal goal of the US imperialists’ satellite development plan lies in attempting to realize their ambition to conquer the world with absolute military superiority by covering the world with a missile network through the installation of missile bases in space, not to mention on the ground and in the sea. This is related with the fact that the belligerent US classes attempt to prospectively incorporate the anti-ballistic missiles deployed in space as part of a unified missile defence system. It is crystal clear that if the US imperialists established a missile defence system in Eastern European countries, they would not stop there, but continue to expand it to other regions.

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The US warmongers are running amok with more frenzy to realize the ambition to dominate the world militarily. This is intensely expressed by the fact that the US Senate has recently passed a bill that permits relevant institutions to dispense tremendous amounts of money for the expansion of nuclear weapons programme, that the US Department of Defence [DoD] established a plan to deploy anti-ballistic missiles in Eastern European countries as part of building a missile defence system, and that [DoD] perpetrated the test-firing of an anti-ballistic missile in the waters off Hawaii.

It is well known that the US imperialists have been enthusiastic about the development and production of nuclear weapons in recent years. The nuclear arsenal of the United States, the country that possesses the largest number of nuclear arms, is filled with almost 20,000 nuclear weapons. The belligerent US classes do not find these enough; they are stepping up the development and production of new nuclear weapons, ignoring the just demand of the international community that nuclear weapons be reduced and abandoned and that the manoeuvres to develop new nuclear arms be stopped. It is clear that these are perpetrated with the purpose of seizing control of nuclear hegemony by ceaselessly building nuclear arms and pressing ahead with the nuclear war strategy.

The belligerent US classes are running amok for the development of a bunker buster nuclear weapon that is light in weight but 10 times mightier than the atomic bomb that was dropped in Hiroshima, Japan in 1945. In 2002, the US imperialists created an organ to develop the state-of-the-art warheads for the development of new and upgraded nuclear warheads, and started a research project to develop nuclear weapons to destroy underground structures, which has already reached a test stage. Some 100 nuclear physicists in three major US nuclear weapons research centres, including Los Alamos, are mobilized for the project to develop new-generation nuclear weapons, and they are carrying out a decomposition review to extend the lifespan of the “W-76” hydrogen warhead, which is the backbone of nuclear arsenal. That the belligerent US classes intend to further spend a large amount of funds comes from their attempt to accelerate the development and production of nuclear weapons in earnest on a large scale.

The US imperialists plan to deploy a missile defence system in the East European countries and deliver the newest-type equipment, the same kind mobilized for the establishment of their own country’s missile defence system. This is to militarily bring the neighbouring countries under control and realize military hegemony.

It is merely a deception that the belligerent US classes profess that the manoeuvres to establish a missile defence system for Eastern European countries, such as Poland and Czech Republic, are “to protect all of Europe”.

The US imperialists’ manoeuvres to establish a missile defence system are clearly being perpetrated with the criminal purpose to seize control of military hegemony and to militarily attack other countries. That the US imperialists intend to establish a missile defence system in Eastern European countries is part of a sinister design to form an aggressive missile network throughout the world. In other words, they hope to carry out missile strikes on any region in the world by deploying missiles on the ground, in the sea, and even in space. The US warmongers have already deployed ground-based anti-ballistic missiles in Alaska and California, and are now buckling down to the new deployment of the newest surveillance device “X-band radar” in Japan. In addition, they are planning to begin, in the next several years, the development of satellites equipped with anti-ballistic missiles to terminate imaginary ballistic missiles. The criminal goal of the US imperialists’ satellite development plan lies in attempting to realize their ambition to conquer the world with absolute military superiority by covering the world with a missile network through the installation of missile bases in space, not to mention on the ground and in the sea. This is related with the fact that the belligerent US classes attempt to prospectively incorporate the anti-ballistic missiles deployed in space as part of a unified missile defence system. It is crystal clear that if the US imperialists established a missile defence system in Eastern European countries, they would not stop there, but continue to expand it to other regions.

As is seen, the US imperialists’ manoeuvres to realize their ambition to achieve military hegemony and to conquer the world become more blatant by the day, and their danger is increasing all the more.

The United States has set many countries, including our country, Russia, and China, as the targets of its pre-emptive nuclear strikes. There is no guarantee that the US imperialists will not wage nuclear and missile strikes against other countries at any time with farfetched excuses. The US imperialists intend to change the doctrine for the use of nuclear [weapons], so that the local US forces’ commanders can use nuclear weapons on their own decision after reporting it to the President. This clearly hints at the fact that the US imperialists are attempting to use nuclear weapons at any time when they deem it necessary.

The US imperialists’ belligerent manoeuvres provoke vigilance against the United States on the part of the anti-imperialist, pro-independent countries, including the large countries they consider to be their “potential enemies”. It is an anachronistic delusion that the United States seizes military hegemony and hopes to twist the world around its little finger. The US warmongers must abandon their ambition to conquer the world by bringing other countries under control with force.

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