US Must Not Forget the Lesson of History

 

[Press Release]

 

In the stirring period when the 70 million compatriots are dynamically
conducting the national reunification movement upholding the slogan ·Let
Us Open Up a New Era of Independent Reunification, Peace and Prosperity by
Concerted Efforts of Our Nation!·, we, seeing again the US armed spy ship
·Pueblo·, hardly repress the burning indignation toward the US, today,
40 years after its capture.

 

The ·Pueblo· is historical evidence that demonstrated throughout the
world the victory of the DPRK in the showdown with the US for defending
the sovereignty and dignity of the nation.

The US armed spy ship ·Pueblo· intruded deep into the DPRK territorial
waters to commit spy acts and seized by the valiant Korean navy force on
January 23, 1968.

 

Facing the most shameful defeat in the US history that a US warship was
captured by a foreign country, the White House ran amuck like a burnt
calf.

 

Instead of admitting its criminal aggression act, the US committed
aggression forces including the nuclear-powered aircraft-carrier
·Enterprise· to the Korean East Sea off Wonsan and mobilized enormous
aggression forces enough to carry out a full war near the Korean seas,
clamoring for ·retaliation if north Korea does not set free the
·®Pueblo·¯ at once·, unhesitating in military intimidation and
blackmailing moves against the DPRK.

 

With the anxiety for a breakout of the third world war in Korea, hundreds
of millions of humankind were closely watching the situation of Korea and
conscientious people were grinding their teeth before the military
intimidation and blackmailing of the White House against Korea.

However, the solemn declaration of President Kim Il Sung that the Korean
people and People·¯s Army would retaliate for the ·retaliation· of the
US imperialists, return all-out war for all-out war, was a thunder and
lighting that appalled the US imperialists and their followers, rendering
an indefinite strength and courage to the progressives aspiring after
independence.

 

President Kim Il Sung, the ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant
commander, shattered once again the myth of the ·mightiness· of US
imperialism to smithereens in front of the whole world.

The US could not but write an apology in which it pledged itself not to
invade the Korean territorial waters again, and kneel down.

 

The ·Pueblo·, exhibited on the bank of the River Daedong where the
monument to the sinking of the US pirate ship ·Sherman· which was
destroyed after invading Korea 140-odd years ago, attests that the history
of the US aggression of Korea is very long and obstinate, and the US has
suffered shameful defeat every time in the DPRK-US confrontation.

The ·Pueblo· incident reminds all the fellow countrymen in the south,
north and overseas of something valuable.

 

It is that for holding great President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il
in high esteem, the Korean nation could reliably safeguard its sovereignty
and dignity, and only anti-US independence is a true way of life.

The US imperialists must not forget the lesson of history given by both US
armed ships ·Sherman· and ·Pueblo· on the bank of the River Daedong
that faced only bitter defeat in their invasions of Korea.

 

If the US continues its hostile policy towards Korea and pursues its
aggression moves against it, it will face a more disgraceful destruction
by the strength of the KPA and the Korean people, thousand times stronger
than it was 40 years ago.

 

The AINDF and the patriotic people in south Korea will more energetically
wage the struggle to check and frustrate the aggressive joint military
drills and the arms buildup in south Korea, dismantle the US military
bases and expel the US troops from south Korea.

 

January 22 Juche 97(2008)

Pyongyang