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--- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector- 23 March 2003
Bahrain Tribune
N. Korea fears US strike
SEOUL: North Korea yesterday condemned the US-led war on Iraq as unjustified and said it now feared Washington was finalising plans for a pre-emptive strike on the Stalinist state’s nuclear facilities.
In Brussels, European Union leaders yesterday called a special meeting of their foreign ministers to discuss the North Korea nuclear crisis, and invited South Korea and Japan to attend, according to the conclusions of a two-day summit.
“The European Council asks the Council (of foreign ministers) to hold a special session on North Korea and to invite neighbouring countries, notably Japan and South Korea, to exchange views with ministers on the situation,” the summit declaration said.
The EU “stands ready to look into the possibility of enhancing cooperation with North Korea if the present crisis can be resolved in a satisfactory manner,” it added.
North Korea and Iraq are fellow members of US President George W. Bush’s “axis of evil” and Pyongyang leaders have repeatedly accused Washington of planning a nuclear strike on their isolated and impoverished country.
“The US armed attack is a grave encroachment upon sovereignty,” North Korea’s foreign ministry said in the Stalinist state’s first official reaction to the war.
“The government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) is opposed to a war. War against the independence of a sovereign state and human rights can never be justified.”
Hundreds of thousands of US and South Korean troops are currently engaged in annual joint military exercises this month, which coincide with the US-led attack on Iraq and which North Korea maintains are a prelude to nuclear war.
“This highhanded action of the US against Iraq and the war preparations now being made by the US and its followers in the Korean peninsula compel the DPRK (North Korea) to do all it can to defend itself and help it clearly know for what it should do more,” the statement added.
The war games were conceived to fix the “zero hour” for the attack, the official Korean Central News Agency added.
However, North Korea’s army and people are “fully ready to wipe out the aggressors to the last man at a single stroke,” it insisted.
In Seoul, a handful of anti-war demonstrators handed a protest letter to the offices of President Roh Moo-Hyun a day after he pledged support for the US-led war. Some 50 demonstrators waving anti-war banners and chanting anti-US slogans gathered outside the US embassy. More than 2,000 demonstrators were expected in the downtown area for another anti-war demonstration late Friday and a major protest rally was planned for today.
MOSCOW: Russia yesterday accused the United States of “trampling” international law by launching war on Iraq and warned the campaign could complicate efforts to resolve the current North Korean nuclear crisis.
“The trampling of international law in the Pursian Gulf, and the decision to turn away from multilateral to unilateral military solutions, can hurt efforts by Moscow and Seoul to resolve the Korean conflict through diplomatic means,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.
– Agencies
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