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September 21 is the Day of International Peace.

On September 7 2001, the 55th Session of the UN General Assembly adopted a decision on setting September 21 every year as the Day of International Peace from 2002. The decision called on all countries and peoples to secure ceasefire in the world in collaboration with the UN on the day and celebrate the day by way of conducting such activities as education and information. 

But lasting peace desired by humankind has not yet been secured.

What ‘apostle of peace’ wants 

The US often says “for peace and security of the world” whenever opportunity comes.

The problem is whether the US really wants peace in its truest sense of the word.

The US is a country which was built on the corpses of American Indians. It provoked more than 100 aggressive wars, large and small, and committed some 8 900 military interventions in the period before the outbreak of the First World War alone. After the Second World War, too, it continued to start wars and make armed interventions, plunging the world into the whirlpool of armed disputes and wars. From 2001 it launched many wars and military actions in over 80 countries on the pretext of a “war on terror”.

The US has been involved in every rebellion breaking out across the world.

It is by no means fortuitous that a journalist of The New York Times wrote in his book that in the last 100 and more years the US had hatched plots to overthrow governments in many countries including Nicaragua, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Honduras, Guatemala, Chile, Grenada, Panama, Afghanistan and Iraq in a bid to realize its wild dominationist ambition.

The main culprit that forged such aggressive military alliances as NATO and AUKUS and creates tension in the regional situation in all parts of the world today is none other than the US.

Recently, the US has openly allowed Ukraine to use US-made weapons in the depth of Russia and argued for expanding the range of their strike in order to fulfil its hegemonic ambition by using Ukraine. In the Middle East Israel continues to perpetrate the massacre of Palestinians under the active military support from the US.

Especially, it escalates the situation in the Asia-Pacific region continuously by deploying strategic assets in it at any time and is constantly carried away by war hysteria while rallying its allies.

Then, why is the US, which styles itself an “apostle of peace”, so hell-bent on military provocations and war moves throughout the world?

In this regard, it is necessary to look back on the statement issued by US President Eisenhower in the mid-20th century, which said that the economy of the US is a war economy and its prosperity is war prosperity.

Developing and fattening with war—this is the mode of existence of the US. Therefore, it continues to ignite the fuse of war disturbing peace and expand its sphere of domination to the whole world.

How is peace defended?

The US has continued to stage heinous nuclear war drills every year, picking the DPRK as the first target of attack and aggression.

Because without occupying the Korean peninsula it is impossible for it to realize its wild ambition for world hegemony.

On a visit to the puppet ROK as the special envoy of the US president on the eve of the Korean war (June 25 1950-July 27 1953), Dulles described the Korean peninsula as a “dagger” to eat off a “big lump of meat”, called Eurasia. It laid bare the US’ wild ambition for world hegemony that only when it occupies the geopolitically important Korean peninsula, can it dominate the Eurasian continent.

At the end of the last century, an American geopolitical expert claimed that to dominate the world the US should dominate the Eurasian continent in the central part of the world, and to dominate the Eurasian continent it should dominate the three major edges of it, namely Germany at the intersection of East and West Europe, Afghanistan and the Middle Eastern region and East Asia including the Korean peninsula. 

Identifying the Korean peninsula as the core in implementing its strategy for world domination, the US has persistently pursued the policy of hostility toward the DPRK since the ceasefire, oblivious of the lesson from its ignominious defeat in the Korean war.

It has plunged the Korean peninsula and regional situation into a crucible of danger of a nuclear war with ceaseless nuclear arms buildup and war games and is now getting more undisguised in the attempt to mount a preemptive nuclear attack on the DPRK by mobilizing the puppet ROK and other following forces.

However, peace has firmly been defended on the Korean peninsula for over 70 years.

It is because the DPRK has steadily built up its self-defensive military capabilities both in quality and quantity.

The DPRK’s armed forces are now fully ready to counter any military threat and mobilize its nuclear war deterrent and absolute power to fulfil their mission correctly and quickly.

It is the stand and will of the DPRK that it should continue to grow stronger to defend itself and that the archenemy of the DPRK is not a specific state or force, but war itself.

Peace is not maintained of its own accord, though we want it.

Powerful self-defensive military capabilities are a fundamental guarantee for preserving peace.