A spokesperson for the Institute for Disarmament and Peace of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) released a press statement: “Collective cooperation against the DPRK will be accompanied by the formation and strengthening of strategic axis for improving the security environment of the region” on September 13.

The full text of the statement reads as follows:

The U.S. and its vassal forces convened the second round of meeting of defense authorities between the Republic of Korea (ROK) and member nations of the “UN Command” on September 10.

Their moves to revitalize the tool for war and confrontation on the Korean peninsula even at the cost of usurping the signboard of the UN are indeed arousing a serious concern of the international community.

Another anti-DPRK confrontation confab was held in the name of the “UN Command” whose dismantlement was declared by the international community decades ago. This is an insult to the inviolable organization of the United Nations and its Charter and serves as another important occasion to clearly discern who is the illegal force inciting military conflict on the Korean peninsula.

The “joint statement” adopted after the meeting also shows that the U.S. has buckled down to drawing member states of the “UN Command” into different joint military drills of aggressive nature so as to make them proficient in the U.S.-drafted war scenario and substantially enhance their capabilities to fight a war.

We hereby term the U.S. and its vassal forces’confrontational moves an extremely dangerous political and military provocation that will cause security imbalance and escalate the danger of war on the Korean peninsula and in the region, and resolutely denounce and reject them.

Expansion of the “UN Command” is a prelude to the establishment of the “Asian version of NATO”, which will result in pushing the Asia-Pacific region deeper into a new cold war structure, far from easing the military tensions on the Korean peninsula and in the region.

Taking into consideration that the revival of the “UN Command” will further increase the possibility of military conflict on the Korean peninsula by stirring up the war hysteria of the ROK military gangsters running amuck in military confrontation with the DPRK, we cannot afford to overlook the danger of such moves.

Moreover, if countries in different regions blindly follow the hostile policy of the U.S. towards the DPRK and subsequently take part in the moves to revive the “UN Command”, military conflict on the Korean peninsula will not be confined to the one between the DPRK and the U.S. but will inevitably lead to the start of a new world war.

It is an essential requirement for the national security and the region’s peaceful development to steadily improve the strategic force capable of deterring and weakening the hostile countries’will for war provocation.

The U.S. and its vassal countries’ collective military confrontation against the DPRK will serve as a motive and catalyst for accelerating the formation and development of a just strategic axis that will definitely disallow the imbalance of power on the Korean peninsula and in the region.

The DPRK will steadily take a new strategic counteraction to contain and frustrate the reckless confrontation moves of the hostile forces to disturb peace and stability on the Korean peninsula by mobilizing an illegal war organization.