A hair-trigger situation has been strained to the breaking point on the Korean Peninsula due to the US and its followers’ hostile policy towards and military pressure on the DPRK against its satellite launch, its legitimate and independent right, and underground nuclear test for self-defense.
It can be said an extremity of crisis that a small military mobility or an incident would spark a full-scale war.
At this juncture, the U.S. staged joint military drill Foal Eagle against the DPRK in tandem with the south Korean belligerent force.
The U.S. should review history of the DPRK-US showdown recorded with ignominious defeat before launching the war exercises against the DPRK. Who were a victor and a loser in history of sharp face-off between Pyongyang and Washington?
The US, which had experienced no defeat in over 110 wars, underestimated the two-year-old DPRK and suffered disgraceful defeat in the Korean War in the 1950s for the first time in its history. In the three-year-long war, it sustained a heavy loss of troops and war materials nearly 2.3 times greater than it had suffered in the four-year-long Pacific War; it had no other choice but to sign an armistice agreement.
The U.S. armed spy ship “Pueblo” was captured in the 1960s while illegally intruding into the DPRK’s territorial waters.
Nevertheless the U.S. dispatched nuclear aircraft carriers around the Korean Peninsula and threatened to bomb coastal city Wonsan or use nukes if the DPRK would not send back the spy ship and its crew.
After 28 rounds of talks for eleven months it presented to the DPRK government a written apology, which acknowledged its espionage and hostile acts against the DPRK, solemnly made an apology for them and assured the prevention of recurrence of such acts.
The US large spy airplane “EC-121” was brought down after intruding into DPRK’s territorial air. The world watched the DPRK-U.S. face-off caused by “Panmunjom Incident” in the middle of 1970s. Their attempts, however, ended in failure, overpowered by stamina of the DPRK in an alert.In the beginning of the 1990s and 2000s, Uncle Sam put military pressure on the DPRK to topple down it in the nuclear confrontation with the US, but it had no other choice but to sit at the negotiation table.
Looking back upon history of the DPRK-U.S. face-off registered with a series of defeat, Washington should see squarely the present final showdown between the DPRK and the U.S.
The DPRK is not a nation that lowers its independent banner to pressure, sanctions and military threat of the hostile elements. It is an iron will of the DPRK to respond a rifle of the U.S. with a gun, and a gun with a missile. The successful launch of the artificial satellite and underground nuclear test were a significant event that showed the world the DPRK does not make concessions to its dignity and rights and it does what it is determined to do.
The KPA warned the U.S. and south Korean bellicose force to stop the joint military exercises. If you ignite a war of aggression by staging the reckless joint military exercises against the DPRK, from that moment your fate will be hung by a thread with every hour.
The true meaning of the words will be verified with the passage of time.
