Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- Recently the U.S. and the ROK made public the "joint fact sheet" of the Kyongju U.S.-ROK summit agreement and the "joint statement" of the 57th U.S.-ROK annual security consultative meeting.

The joint agreement documents, published for the first time after the regime change in the U.S. and the ROK, reveal the true colors of the confrontational will of the U.S. and the ROK to remain hostile towards the DPRK to the end and predicts the future of the U.S.-ROK alliance that will get more dangerous and warns in advance the regional security situation that will become more unstable owing to it.

1. Hostility towards the DPRK and the confrontational ideal become policy again

The announcement of the agreement on the recent U.S.-ROK summit was the most vivid manifestation of the keynote of the policy toward the DPRK of the present U.S. administration which is nearing one year in office.

The U.S. positively promised to achieve the "complete denuclearization of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" together with the ROK at the summit level and this is an intensive expression of their confrontational will to deny the constitution of the DPRK to the last. It proves that their only option is confrontation with the DPRK.

This put an end to the burning question among media and experts about the true nature and orientation of the present U.S. administration's policy toward the DPRK, and the whole international community, as well as the DPRK, further confirmed their view on the U.S. stand towards the DPRK.

The U.S. and the ROK rulers have replaced the words of the "complete denuclearization on the Korean peninsula" which they touted for mere form's sake in the past with the ones of the "complete denuclearization of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea". It is the unanimous assessment of the international community that it is neither more or less than denying the entity and the existence of the DPRK.

This being a fact, the U.S. is talking about the implementation of the past DPRK-U.S. agreement which has been scrapped and nullified by the U.S. itself. This is the height of shamelessness and the way of thinking of Yankees that has made self-conceit their inveterate habit.

What we are faced with is not the past reminding us of disillusionment with the U.S. but the reality in which the U.S. reaffirmed its offer of "extended deterrence" to the ROK by mobilizing all means including nuclear weapons, pledged to strengthen cooperation through the Nuclear Consultative Group and affirmed that the primary target of the U.S. forces in the ROK is the DPRK.

The U.S. allowed the ROK's possession of nuclear submarine, disregarding the danger of the global nuclear arms race to be incurred by the nuclear proliferation to a non-nuclear state, and gave green light for the enrichment of uranium and the reprocessing of nuclear waste fuel, thus laying a springboard for its development into the "quasi-nuclear weapons state". This is an intuitive view of the U.S. dangerous attempt at confrontation.

The results of the U.S.-ROK collusion based on the hostile view on the DPRK and the confrontational ideal are a microcosm of the anti-DPRK confrontational moves and escalation of tensions of the U.S. and the ROK which became more blatant since the emergence of the present U.S. administration.

This year alone, under the pretext of "demonstrating the ROK-U.S. alliance and increasing inter-operability", dozens of joint military exercises have been staged without any gap of time and the U.S. strategic means made frequent trip to the Korean peninsula (nuclear carrier for two times and strategic bomber for three times) started with the nuclear submarine Alexandria's entry into Pusan port in February last. This proves that the U.S. intention to be hostile towards the DPRK remains unchanged with consistency irrespective of regime change.

Days ago, the George Washington nuclear carrier taskforce, which had entered Pusan Port under the pretext of "supply of materials" and "rest of sailors", staged large-scale joint naval drills with the ROK navy. This reaffirmed the purpose of frequent deployment of strategic means which is to master the ability to fight a war against the DPRK.

Various bilateral and multilateral alliances, coalitions and consultation groups exist in the world under freewheeling pretexts, but there will be no such nexus of conspiracy as the U.S.-ROK alliance which directly targets a sovereign state and openly stipulated the confrontation with it as the line of the alliance.

2. Master and servant relations thoroughly serving realization of "America First" become Intensified

The ROK economy and national defence have been thoroughly subordinated to the realization of the self-righteous and hegemony-oriented "America-first". This is the most tangible "success" of the U.S.-ROK confabs.

The U.S. forced the ROK to pay tribute with astronomical amount of money that can completely drain the already vulnerable national economy in return for "slashing" the general tariff rate on the ROK to 15 percent, thus thoroughly turning the ROK economy into the colonial contract economy for the U.S. "economic prosperity".

On the other hand, the ROK decided to lift import restrictions on U.S. surplus goods including automobiles, foodstuffs and agricultural products and remove non-tariff barriers and thus opened its domestic market to the U.S.

This reminds the people of the humiliating and unequal Treaty of Jemulpo which granted the U.S. many economic privileges and restricted the Korean feudal government to provide the U.S. with privileges more than 140 years ago.

The tragedy of Jemulpo has clearly repeated in the military field.

The U.S. has more positively induced businesses of the ROK to participate in the "MASGA" plan for restoring the U.S. shipbuilding industry and reduced shipyards and harbors in the ROK into the repair, supply and maintenance bases for U.S. warships.

Meanwhile, the ROK pledged to increase the defense cost by 3.5 percent of its GDP for the first time as a non-NATO member among the U.S. treaty allied nations and thus was awarded the title of "exemplary ally" by the U.S.

In particular, the ROK decided to purchase U.S.-made weapons worth 25 billion US dollars and offer 33 billion US dollars for the upkeep of the U.S. forces in the ROK, coming under a yoke of the U.S. munitions industries by offering a brisk market for them by itself. This illuminates the master and servant relations between the U.S. and the ROK what they call the "best blood alliance".

The reality goes to prove that the alliance between the U.S. and the ROK is by no means the reciprocal and equal relations between states, but the relations between master and servant and that it serves as the straight road for realizing "America first" which seeks only the interests of the U.S. but totally ignores those of the ROK.

3. Dangerous nexus between the U.S. and the ROK extending to the globe beyond the regional range

The U.S. strategic scenario to use the ROK as a shock troop for realizing its Indo-Pacific strategy for holding the hegemony over the Korean peninsula, Northeast Asia and the rest of the Asia-Pacific region has been fully revealed through the present occasion.

The U.S. and the ROK agreed to boost the conventional deterrence posture under the pretext of coping with all regional threats to their allies and talked about the importance of ensuring "freedom of navigation" and peace and stability in the Taiwan Channel, revealing their sinister intention to deny territorial integrity and core interests of sovereign states in the region and openly interfere in the affairs in the international conflict areas.

They also decided to further intensify the tripartite drills, information sharing and military exchange for strengthening the U.S.-Japan-ROK tripartite military cooperation and thus shaped as their policy the course of military action to promote the U.S.-ROK alliance to an entity of global military alliance, not a mere regional bloc.

In particular, the U.S. approval to the ROK's possession of nuclear submarine is a serious development that destabilizes the military security situation in the Asia-Pacific region beyond the Korean peninsula and causes the situation of impossible nuclear control in the global sphere.

The fact that the plan for building a nuclear submarine was secretly promoted in 2003 proves that the ROK's ambition to possess nuclear submarines is neither a "reflective measure" to cope with the DPRK's access to nuclear weapons nor a matter of defensive nature to cope with "regional threat" but the most dangerous step to open up the gate of realizing its long-cherished ambition to possess nuclear weapons.

The ROK's possession of nuclear submarine is a strategic move for "its own nuclear weaponization" and this is bound to cause a "nuclear domino phenomenon" in the region and spark a hot arms race.

The U.S. hegemonic scenario to encircle and contain rivals by forming a U.S.-led NATO-style security structure in the Asia-Pacific region by putting the U.S.-ROK alliance on a regional and modern basis is being translated into reality in detail. Such reality requires a more awakened way of looking at the regional and international security situation that will get more unstable and redoubled efforts to cope with it.

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The U.S. and the ROK are openly ignoring the DPRK's legitimate security concern and aggravating the regional tension. Their provocative acts prove the correctness of the option of the DPRK which has indomitably covered the road of defending peace and security with practical acts, not words, properly informing the world community where the root of the instability on the Korean peninsula is.

The DPRK will take more justified and realistic countermeasures to defend the sovereignty and security interests of the state and regional peace, corresponding to the fact that the confrontational intention of the U.S. and the ROK to remain hostile towards the DPRK was formulated as their policy once again. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.11.18.)