The DPRK set it as one of important policies to defuse the danger of a war and create a peaceful environment on the peninsula and has exerted consistent efforts to implement it.

According to AA paragraphs on withdrawing all foreign forces from Korea and building lasting peace mechanism on the peninsula right after the end of the Korean war in 1953, the DPRK side proposed the U.S. side to convene a political meeting of higher level and made all efforts for the successful progress of the meeting.

In 1958 we took the measure of requesting the Chinese People's Volunteers to withdraw from the north even though U.S. forces were present in south Korea.

In order to make a substantial contribution to easing tensions on the peninsula the DPRK government unilaterally curtailed 8,000 troops in 1956, 100,000 troops in 1987 and diverted 150,000 troops to the peaceful construction in 1986.

In 1974 and in 1984 it proposed talks between the DPRK and the U.S. and talks among the DPRK, U.S. and south Korea and in 1998 it also proposed DPRK-U.S. military negotiations for building new peace mechanism and again proposed the issue of building tripartite joint military mechanism for detente on the peninsula.

At the historic north-south summit in 2007 the October 4 declaration was adopted to the effect that top leaders of three or four parties related to the Korean issue would cooperate among themselves to press for the issue of declaring the end of the war on the peninsula.

The DPRK's efforts for averting the danger of a war and creating a peaceful environment have been fully displayed in the struggle to defuse the nuclear threat by the U.S.

The DPRK government made the initiative of building a nuclear free zone in Asia, the initiative of building nuclear free zone in Northeast Asia and the initiative of building nuclear free zone on the Korean Peninsula in 1959, 1981 and 1986 and has worked hard for their realization.

Prompted by its intention to turn the Korean Peninsula into a nuclear free zone, the DPRK made public a statement of its government in 1986, solemnly stating that it would neither test, produce, store or introduce nuclear weapons and that it would neither allow all the military bases including foreign nuclear bases nor allow the passage of foreign nuclear weapons through its land, territorial air and waters.

The DPRK government has also worked hard to remove the nuclear threats from the U.S. through international law and international bodies by acceding to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and joining the International Atomic Energy Agency under the treaty, not just seeking ways of dialogue and negotiations.

Recently thanks to the positive efforts made by the DPRK to defuse military tension in the areas along the Military Demarcation Line, north-south high-level urgent contact was made and an agreement on improving the relations was adopted. This is a clear proof of the sincere efforts made by the DPRK government to avert a war and defend regional peace and stability.

But these efforts have not yielded desired fruits due to the U.S. vicious hostile policy toward the DPRK.

In November 1953, the U.S. set it as its final goal on Korea to maintain the armistice system until the "pro-U.S. unification" and turn south Korea into "military ally" and thus hold back "communization" of the whole of Korea.

It is for this reason that the U.S. has denied all peace-loving proposals made by the DPRK, posed constant military threats and perpetrated provocations for war and even posed threat of a nuclear war to the DPRK.

Recently the U.S. staged joint operational drill including guerrilla battle, city regional battle, occupying of positions and shelling drills simulating a military operation within the DPRK in the northern area of Kyonggi Province, close to the MDL, together with the military warmongers of south Korea.

All facts go to prove that the main reason for a touch-and-go situation prevailing on the Korean Peninsula is attributable to the U.S. inveterate repugnancy and hostile policy toward the DPRK.

The U.S. is the chief criminal escalating tension on the peninsula.

The more frequently the U.S. and the south Korean authorities stage military exercises under various codenames and the more persistently they keep the fragile armistice mechanism, the further they will speed up the repetition of the evil cycle of escalating tension and the more dangerously they will push the situation to the brink of a war.

A fundamental way of preventing this serious state is for the DPRK and the U.S. to scrap the old armistice agreement and adopt a new peace treaty to establish durable peace-keeping mechanism on the peninsula.

If the U.S. truly hopes for peace and stability on the peninsula, there would be no reason for it to reject the DPRK's proposal for concluding a peace treaty.