Following is the full text of the commentary released by Kim Hyok Nam on Monday titled "Commentary on the 'Strategic Flexibility' of the US Forces in the Republic of Korea":

The commander of the US forces in the Republic of Korea and other former and present high-ranking figures in the United States are making a great fuss about coordination of posture and expansion of role of the US forces in the Republic of Korea, talking about "strategic flexibility" every day or less.

They even stressed that the "strategic flexibility" of the US forces in the Republic of Korea is focusing on restraining China and this will make the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Russia and China change their methods of calculation, while revealing their black ulterior intention hidden under the pretext of "flexibility".

It is extremely provocative in its purpose, far from the rhetorical threats and visible words. The United States has formulated that it will directly commit its forces in the Republic of Korea to the conflicts and battlefields of the Asia-Pacific region by turning them into the regional mobile task ones. This is a US strategic intention to maintain its hegemonic position in the Asia-Pacific region by changing its role.

The "strategic flexibility" of expanding the role of the US overseas-based forces, including the US forces in the Republic of Korea, has not been in existence for only a day or two. It is a deep-rooted doctrine of aggression of the United States which has thought out under the pretext of promptly coping with the "uncertain security threat" in any region on the earth since the end of the Cold War and evolved into a vicious one under the pretext of "flexibility".

The upgrade of the US forces in the Republic of Korea has been stepped up in a systematic way with the aim of dispatching them into a surrounding operational area, including the redeployment of the US forces in the Republic of Korea under the pretext of "flexibility" and the rotation deployment of the mobile task force "Striker" brigade.

The gravity of the situation is that the "strategic flexibility" is raising its head again with more visible strike target and more detailed operational scope under such condition that the remodeling of the US forces in the Republic of Korea into the mobile task forces was completed in fact.

It is as clear as noonday that the moment the "strategic flexibility" heated with the hegemonic ambition starts, it will ignite various elements of conflicts latent in the northeast Asia and bring about a huge chain explosion.

It is by no means accidental that the US institute for policy studies recently announced the shocking results of computer simulated war that the conflict between China and the United States in a particular region may spread to the Korean peninsula and Japan in an instant and lead to the outbreak of a nuclear war, thus giving rise to concern among the public.

The uneasy mental state of the White House seeing the rapid growth of the independent camp against the United States in the Asia-Pacific region and feeling its inferiority in strength and loss of its hegemonic position owing to the rapid growth is the bottom line of the US such provocative acts full of recklessness and impatience.

The situation in the Middle East being complicated with each passing day and the unstable trend of military and political situation in Europe make the United States have more worries about the Asia-Pacific region.

It is the US attempt of aggression to optimize its strategic efficiency and maintain its hegemony in use of the strength of even its satellite countries by putting the role of its forces stationed in the Republic of Korea on a multi-purpose and diversified basis in the Asia-Pacific region to cope with the current "compound crisis" situation.

In case that the advance of the US forces in the Republic of Korea into major regions is realized, the Republic of Korea will play the role of the most effective sortie base and the first forward base and the involvement of the ROK Army in the war under the subordinated structure of the US-ROK alliance will be inevitable.

It is the clear evidence that the commander of the US forces in the Republic of Korea has openly asserted that there are no other US troops than the US forces in the Republic of Korea in the regions 400 to 600 kilometres away from Beijing in a straight line and there is no such powerful and threatening means of committing combat power as the aircraft carrier called the Republic of Korea.

There is no doubt that the US reckless moves to pressurize its enemy states by using the Republic of Korea as an aircraft carrier will accelerate the concentration, accumulation and expansion of huge war energy in the Asia-Pacific region.

All facts clearly show that the US adventurous acts of seeking its hegemony are an incurable evil factor that destroys the strategic balance of the region and pushes the global security environment to an uncontrollable catastrophic phase.

The US hegemonic acts of seeking the active intervention of its troops in the Asia-Pacific region create another new instable climate that poses a multi-sided and multi-layered threat to the peace and security environment in the region and the rest of the world.

The multi-polarization of the world aspiring after justice is tolling the death knell for the United States seeking hegemony of injustice.

The evermore reckless provocative acts of the enemies with the appearance of the present US administration are giving us the justness and urgency for updating and building the most overwhelming and offensive deterrent and translating into the tough action signaling our great warning.

The "strategic flexibility" of the US forces stationed in the Republic of Korea based on the anachronistic "doctrine of strength-almighty" will result in the inevitable strategic isolation of the United States and the decline of its irrevocable strength.