North Korea condemns U.S. missile test

[soulxtc]

PYONGYANG, North Korea, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- North Korea Saturday called a U.S. missile defense test a threat and vowed to strengthen its defense measures in response.

North Korea's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland released a statement saying the U.S. test, which was conducted Friday over the Pacific Ocean, "was aimed at attacking us and intercepting our missiles," the BBC reported Saturday.

The committee also called the United States the "the main culprit" in the threat of war on the Korean peninsula.

"It is a folly that the United States wields the truncheons of power in order to scare someone into submission ... This only leads the army and the people to firm up their determination to build up our self-defensive military deterrence," the statement said.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency earlier announced an interceptor had successfully halted a target fired from Alaska.

"What we did today is a huge step in terms of our systematic approach to continuing to field, continuing to deploy and continuing to develop a missile defence system for the US, for our allies, our friends, our deployed forces around the world," said Lt. Gen. Henry Obering, director of the MDA.

http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060902-082144-1563r

[soulxtc]

140-Year-Long History of U.S. Aggression against Korea under Fire

NORTH KOREA

To Korean
News From KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY of DPRK(Democratic People's Republic of Korea)

Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- The History Society of the DPRK made public a memorandum on Sept. 1 140 years since soldiers and people in the Walled City of Pyongyang waged a patriotic struggle against the U.S. imperialists' aggression ship General Sherman's illegal intrusion into the River Taedong to commit atrocities and sent it to the bottom of the river. The lengthy memorandum has three parts under the following sub-titles: "1. The true colors of USS General Sherman and the U.S. imperialists' start of war to invade Korea," "2. The U.S. imperialists' positive support to the Japanese imperialists' occupation of Korea and colonial rule over it" and "3. The chief architect of division of Korea and chieftain of war for dominating it."

The memorandum cites concrete facts to prove that the U.S. imperialists have ceaselessly committed all sorts of moves for aggression against Korea in every form and by all means for 140 years.

According to the memorandum, the ship was a scout ship dispatched by the U.S. imperialists to Korea under the disguise of "a trade ship" to reduce it to their commodity market and a base for looting raw materials.

It says:
According to the data about the ship Princess Royal, the predecessor of USS General Sherman, recently available from the San Francisco Museum in the U.S., it was a developed warship with a steam engine and the canvas belonging to the U.S. Navy in those times. It was equipped with four guns and had "a great many rifles, shotguns and swords and a large quantity of shells and bullets aboard.

Needless to say, it was a heavily armed ship for aggression.

The mission of the ship was to play the role of an advance and scout party in order to carry out the U.S. government's Korea policy aimed at "forcing Korea to open to it." The ship had operated according to the instructions of the U.S. government. It can be clearly evidenced by the fact that the ship sailed to China to "protect the interests of the U.S. in China" and was dispatched to Korea from there under the guise of a trade ship.

The U.S. was beaten hard by the defeat of the largest-ever expeditionary force since the civil war. It gave up its plan to conquer Korea single-handedly and started to look for its ally. It thus chose Japan as its suitable one.

When Japan forced Korea to sign the Kanghwa Island Treaty in February of 1876 the U.S. shouted for joy and worked out a scenario for aggression which called on Japan to impose an unequal treaty upon Korea. Taking advantage of "good offices" of Japan and the contradictions between the Ching Dynasty and Japan, the U.S. forced Korea to sign the "Korea-U.S. Treaty" on the 6th of April, 1882.

The U.S. imperialists, while keeping their ambition to invade Korea under wraps, worked in the direction of openly instigating its ally Japan to occupy Korea.

The Japanese imperialists perpetrated two wars of aggression (Sino-Japanese war and Russo-Japanese war) to seize Korea, a product of such cunning and insidious policy of the U.S. imperialists.

The U.S. imperialists fabricated with Japan the "Taft-Katsura Agreement" as a memorandum on the 29th of July in 1905, thus legally assuring Japan of their support to its occupation of Korea.

The tragic "Ulsa Five-point Treaty" and "Korea-Japan Annexation Treaty" imposed upon Korea were products of the criminal conspiracy and tie-up between the U.S. and Japan to all intents and purposes.
The Japanese imperialists' occupation of Korea and their more than 40 year-long colonial rule over Korea always received strong support from the U.S. imperialists.

After emerging the ringleader of world imperialism at the end of the World War II the U.S. imperialists schemed to start "Crusade" for the domination of the world from the Asian continent, the Korean Peninsula, in particular. They started this operation by dividing Korea, a crime against her people.

The 38th parallel was, from the outset, no more than a temporary line from which the forces of the Soviet Union and the U.S. were meant to wrest surrender from the imperial Japanese army. But the U.S. imperialists were so crafty as to use it for realizing its strategy to put the world under its domination. They brought into bolder relief their ambition to put south Korea under their permanent occupation and turn it into "an outpost in the Far East."

After staging a separate election on May 10, the U.S. imperialists ignited a war in Korea on June 25, 1950.

During the three-year-long war the barbarous U.S. imperialists killed millions of innocent Koreans in the north and the south of Korea.

They have not given up their moves to put Korea under their domination since the ceasefire. On contrary, they have become all the more undisguised in their moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK. The U.S. Korea strategy pursued from Eisenhower to the present Bush administration is to stifle the DPRK with nuclear weapons by provoking another war against it.

Such large-scale war drills as "Team Spirit", "Foal Eagle" and "Ulji Focus Lens" staged by the U.S. imperialists across south Korea numbered more than tens of thousands with a total of 20 million troops involved.

Their frantic and reckless moves to start a war have always pushed the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war since the ceasefire. They had perpetrated more than 150,000 cases of military provocations against the DPRK up to 1999 since the ceasefire.

Their moves for aggression, domination and war against Korea have reached an extreme phase due to the vicious moves of the present Bush administration to isolate and stifle the DPRK and its anti-reunification moves.

The U.S. imperialists are a stumbling block lying in the way of reunification of Korea as they have pursued a separatist policy for such a long period of time.

The above-said history of the U.S. imperialists' aggression against Korea self-exposes before the world that the U.S. is the sworn enemy of the Korean nation as it imposed only subjugation, division and war upon the people century after century, the memorandum noted, stressing the Korean people will surely settle accounts with the U.S. imperialist aggressors for their crime-woven history under the uplifted banner of Songun.


http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm

[cjules13]

I'm sure they will condemn each and every bomb that lands on Pyongyang enventually as well.

[DwarfBaby]

I'm sure they will condemn each and every bomb that lands on Pyongyang enventually as well.

Funny,

I'm sure if North Korea tries to fire a missile at the US and the US shoots it down, somehow it will be considered an act if American aggression.

[shawners]

Just like pot calling the kettle black.

[soulxtc]

Just like pot calling the kettle black.


and then some.............

[bobhss]

America and her emperor Bush are trying to take over the world! They will subjugate every one on the Korean peninsula. Look how they use the guise of missle defense to attack the poor and peace loving people of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

This is supposed to be taken as true, but I mean it as sarcasm.

[mfgbypooter]

I can't imagine why they would think the US would go to war with N. Korea it's not like they have any oil or opium.

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[DwarfBaby]

I can't imagine why they would think the US would go to war with N. Korea it's not like they have any oil or opium.

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South Korea is the 51st state. They grow freakin engineers on trees for a third of the price. South Korea has more US household names then Japan at a third the price. North Korea might as well attack California before it attacks South Korea the results will be the same. However to be realistic bombs will fall eventually unless the North suddenly has a random stroke of sanity.