History of U.S. Imperialists' Aggression on Korea

  Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- The United States has a long history of its aggression on Korea.
    The U.S. imperialists launched its aggression on Korea with intrusion of their ship General Sherman into the Taedong River in 1866, and divided the country into two parts by occupying south Korea just after the Second World War.
    The U.S. ignited a war on June 25, 1950 to swallow up the young Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
    Even after its defeat in the war, the U.S. has persistently attempted to invade the DPRK by provoking such shocking incidents as spy ship Pueblo, spy plane EC-121 and "Panmunjom" cases.
    The U.S. imperialists shipped nukes and all other offensive means into south Korea and ceaselessly staged nuclear war exercises for a preemptive attack on the DPRK with mobilization of their huge armed forces based around the Korean Peninsula and in the Pacific and the U.S. mainland.
    The bellicose U.S. military has concentrated its efforts on increasing the mobility and striking ability of its armed forces to ensure their rapid deployment in case of "emergency" on the Korean Peninsula.
    It directs big efforts to beefing up air and fleet forces while setting up many military bases in such regions near the DPRK as Japan and Hawaii.
    The on-going Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises in the Korean Peninsula are part of the U.S. imperialists' undisguised war moves against the DPRK.
    Under such prevailing situation, the DPRK took self-defensive measures in succession, arousing its army and people to an all-out action against the U.S.
    As was already declared, it will surely win in the showdown with the U.S., achieve national reunification and build a thriving socialist nation. -0-