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UNITED NATIONS S/15778 SECURITY 20 my 1983 COUNCIL ORIGINAL: ENGLISH NOTE BY THE PRBSIDENT OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL The attached letter dated 19 May 1983 tram the Permanent Observer of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the United Nations was addressed to the President of the Security Council. In accordance wittl the request therein contained, the letter is being circulated as a document of the Security Council. 83-12749 0865j (E) /... S/15778 English Page 2 Annex I Letter dated 19 May 1983 from the Permanent Observer of the Democratic ~eople's Republic of Korea to the United Nations addressed to tl;e President of the Security Council I have the honour to transmit herewith the text of a memorandum of the Foreign Ministry of the Uemocratic People's Republic of Korea dated 21 April 1983 in connection with an attempt to form a new military alliance in northeast Asia. I should be grateful if you would arrange for this letter and the enclosed memorandum to be distributed as a document of the Security Council. (Signed) HAN Si Hae Ambassador tittraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Observer of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the United Nations S/15778 English Page 3 Annex II Memorandum of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea dated 21 April 1983 [Original: English/French/ Russian/Spanish] In an attempt to concoct a new aggressive military and strongly demand an immediate halt of it. bloc in the Far East the US imperialists are now hell, Nevertheless. the US imperialists are accelerating on bent on their scheme to frame up a US-Japan-south a full scale formation of the tripartite military alliance Korea tripartite military alliance. while resorting to a deceptive propaganda to conceal it. This further aggravates the present situation in The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Korean peninsula and the Asian region and focusses People’s Republic of Korea issues this Memorandum. world attention on it. considering it necessary to bring to light the true nature All the peoples of Asia and the world cherishing of the move to frame up US-Japan-south Korea justice and peace sternly condemn US imperialism for Tripartite Military Alliance which has becomeevermore its criminal move to fabricate tripartite military alliance undisguised at present. The Formation of the,Tripartite Military Alliance Is the Basic Goal in the Present Asia Strategy of US Imperialism The ambition of the US imperialists for domination of ‘aggressive Korean war on June 25, 1950. Asia has long been exposed. Having suffered a shameful defeat in the Korean war For world domination the US imperialists who fat- they conceived it an easy way to form a new military tened on enormous war profits in the Second World bloc in the Far East as they felt discontent with War saw the importance of domination over the vast mobilisation of only their satellite countries which are continent of Asia and so they have directed their located across oceans and continents in realisation of spearhead of aggression first to the Far East which is an their domination over the Korean peninsula and Asia. important region militarily and geographically in Asia. Hence, immediately after the Korean war US imperia- The following statement made by MacArthur, former lism put up the deceptive doctrine of what was called Commander-in-Chief, US Army Forces for the Far East. “defence of Asia by Asians” and started hatching IS an eloquent testimony to what great importance the plots to tie to a single line the bilateral military US imperialists attached to the Far East: “If we fail to pacts concluded between the US. Japan and south check the advance of Communism in the Far East they Korea by dint of acceleration of revival and rearmament (the American people) can not conquer both Europe of Japanese militarism and stepping up military COI- and Asia”; “the future of Europe too depends on laboration between the Japanese milit&.ts and south whether the United States wins or loses in the fight Korean puppets. against Communism in Asia. If the United States fails to The former US Secretary of State Dulles said that set foot in the Far East she may lose Asia and if she fails there existed treaties between Japan and the US. to bring Asia under her control she may lose the world”. between Taiwan and the US. between south Korea and (Sibolt. “Diplomat Memoir on cJcc”pation Of Japan”, the US respectively, but these were “fusion of three JaPaneSe edition. PP. 186. 194.). lines centred in the United States”. laying stress on Therefore, the US imperialists regarded the Korean “need of making the one similar to SEATO” in the future peninsula as the first test ground for their strength with in whatever shape by “tying them to one line.” Communism in the Far East and at last triggered off the This clamour made by Dulles implies the formation of / . S/15778 English Page 4 an aggressive tripartite military alliance led by the US. defence front” between the US. Japan and south Korea The US strategy to fabricate a tripartite military more glaringly reveals the fact that it is a part of the alliance between the US, Japan and south Korea has tripartite military alliance system between the US. been pushed forward in close combination with form- Japan and south Korea and that it is the basic aim of the ation of “collective security system” in Asia and the US Asia strategy to complete tripartite military alliance Pacific region. at present. In thiscontext, a US magazinewrote to theeffectthat With regards to the US moves for rigging up tripartite the most ideal thing in realization of the US Pacific military alliance, the Japanese military commentator strategy would be fusion between Japan and south Mizzawa Tooru said that the US ruling circle holds it as Korea in a few years so as to “form crescent shape of their “strategic goal” to “merge and reorganize the encirclement net” around the Asian continent and that three treaty apparatuses” between the US and Japan. if “this great system” is not formed, the US would be the US and south Korea. Japan and south Korea into a “satisfied” with “formation of a regional federation” single system by mid-1980s at latest and expand it to among Japan, Taiwan and south Korea. “set up a West Pacific Treaty Organization of Asian type The US scheme to concoct a US-Japan-south Korea similar to NATO,” and Japanese publications wrote tripartite military alliance in the Far East has become that the US Government “urged” Japan to offer “every more undisguised with the emergence of the present convenience”to the UStroopswho will be mobilized to US Administration early 80s. the Korean peninsula in “case of emergency” in return The present US Administration is saying that As&is for the US “protection of security” of south Korea. “a very important area militarily. economically and which made clear the “policy of strengthening of politically” and that “East Asia will be focus of the tripartite relations” between south Korea. US and world in the remaining period of presentcentury”while Japan. ever more persistently clinging to aggressive policy to The south Korean newspaper “Tonga Ilbo” also control Asia, East Asia in particular. in pursuance of worte in its issue of February 14 last that the United their strategy for world domination. States is strengthening “the relations of military Reagan told former Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda cooperation” between the US, Japan and south Korea during the latter’s visit to the United States early 1981 to “build up collective security system” in Asia and the that Japan’s role in Northeast Asia was to “reduce Pacific and that strengthening such a collaboration is defence burden” of the US by the virtue of alliance with “indispensable for US Asia strategy.” south Korea and Donnely, Commander of the US As such, the moves of US imperialism to achieve her Armed Forces in Japan blared out “the conception of Asian strategy by framing up a tripartite military alliance joint defence front”-that the US, Japan and south in the Far East were premeditated from the beginning, Korea must “fight together” in the Korean peninsula. which were clearly confirmed by historical events and As a matter of fact, the so-called “conception of joint realities. Laying Groundwork for Criminal Tripartite Military Alliance and “Unifica;Fsn;f Military Cooperation ,, The scheme of US imperialism to project a tripartite long been put into operation with employment of military alliance of the US, Japan and south Korea has various cunning methods. / . ,~, :,,:;,.: :;. ,.,,,j ., ,, ~.~. ., S/15778 English Page 5 US imperialism realized that it would be too early to sion army and the Japanese ‘&If-defence forces” for form tripartite military alliance at once and its shortest the aggression in Asia so as to funher strengthen the road would be formation of bilateral military relations military tie-up with the Japbnese militarists for the among them respectively in consideration of the post- aggression in the Korean peninsula and Asia. war general situation of Asia and constitutional limi- In wake of binding Japan in military alliance they tation of Japan as well os Japan’s restricted relations concluded “mutual defence treaty” with the south with south Korea. Korean puppets in Seoul. on August 6. 1953. Therefore. US imperialism has planned to speed UP This fabrication of the “treaty” was a pan of prepar- the manufacture of a tripartite military alliance resorting ations for reducing south Korea into a complete bridga- to the method of gradually combining together three head and military stronghold for their aggression in joints with the US as the apex of a triangle in duecourse whole Korea and Asia and forming a new military bloc after conclusion of bilateral military pacts betwaen the in Asia.