米日韓の動きがアジア太平洋地域の安全保障を脅かすと軍事評論家が主張

Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) — Following is the full text of “Threat Posed by the Trinity of the U.S., Japan and the ROK which is settled as a new security crisis in the Asia-Pacific region”, an article released by a military commentator on August 3: Clearly illuminated is the threat by the trinity of the U.S., Japan and the ROK to ensure a military edge by openly ignoring the security concerns of the regional countries and steadily strengthening their ability to carry out the combined war. This is proved by RIMPAC, the largest-ever joint naval drill in the world, which was recently conducted in the Pacific Ocean, led by the U.S. It is not a secret that the U.S., which had staged RIMPAC joint military exercises targeting the former Soviet Union since 1971, has steadily expanded the scale and contents of the exercises with the aim of containing the marine advance of other countries and establishing regional hegemony under the pretext of defending the maritime security after the end of the Cold War. This year, too, the U.S. and its vassal allies conducted more than 500 maritime drills and 2 400-odd flight drills involving over 30 000 troops, above 30 surface warships, five submarines and at least 190 aircraft. The recent joint military exercises have raised concern of the international community because of not only the large-scale forces and military hardware reminiscent of the Pacific War but also the reality in which the nature and color of RIMPAC, the war drill against the sovereign states in the region, have become clearer and the leading role with which Japan and the ROK have played pursuant to the U.S. hegemonic strategy. The ROK, which has participated in RIMPAC since 1990, performed the commandership of the joint naval component army commanding the naval forces of the participating countries for the first time, and Japan undertook the deputy commandership of the joint mobile unit in the said drill. This clearly shows the strategic attempt of the U.S. to strengthen its interoperability with the ROK and Japan under the simulated conditions of a real war and to establish an absolute military hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region by imposing more security burden on them. The deputy commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet openly said that the commanding role of the ROK and Japan was not a symbolic one but for the actual operation. This goes to prove that RIMPAC, the largest-ever naval drill in the world, is, in fact, a war rehearsal of aggression led by the U.S., Japan and the ROK. The U.S. is more openly manifesting such military orientation in the region around the Korean peninsula, the biggest hotspot in the Asia-Pacific region. In July alone, the U.S. and the ROK staged Buddy Squadron air drills under the pretext of strengthening their capability of cooperation in the air and conducted on an unprecedented scale the Combined Joint Sustainment Training aimed at providing logistic support to the ROK from the U.S. mainland and overseas military bases in case of contingency on the Korean peninsula. The U.S. speeds up the transformation of the U.S. Forces in Japan into a unified military command with independent operational functions with an aim to strengthen cooperation in command control with the integrated operation command of the Self-Defence Forces of Japan and schemes to deploy in the ROK the medium-range strategic missile system Typhon with the regional countries in its striking range after its deployment in Japan. Japan launched Tomahawk long-range cruise missile it purchased from the U.S. in the Pacific Ocean amid open debate about going nuclear on its own accord, completely throwing away the deceptive mask of “exclusive defense”. And the ROK has been developing a nuclear submarine in real earnest, citing the “naval threat” from neighboring countries. Apparently, the U.S. confrontational racket and reckless acts of Japan and the ROK which avail themselves of the former’s moves have already crossed the red line and their ill-lo