Chapter 7 - {Shakespearean}
“What an explosive turn of events this has been today, folks!” Heimdall shouted out to the entire audience, “Who will come out the victor in this explosive clash of wills? Will it be the wild might of Camulus’ Awakening, or will it be the calm focus of Henry's Royal Instinct?”
Both men stood, battered but still sharp, waiting for the other to make a move first. Then, as if two halves of a whole, they moved simultaneously.
These were not the fast rushes and dashes that had persisted for most of the fight, these were the measured steps of two weary warriors, where every step mattered in the struggle for control. Though the ground was rendered jagged and uneven, difficult to walk on, their eyes remained locked in each other.
Each step, they grew closer and closer. A moment of silence fell over everyone in the audience in moment before their weapons touched. The shadows intersected before a CHINK was heard, and in a flash, the switch flipped for both fighter, as they sprang to life to begin the final act in their duel.
Sword clashed against fist at speedster could only be registered as a blur amongst both gods and men. Indeed, though both men had been drained, seeming just a moment ago to have next to nothing left to give. Now, they had never seemed better, never seemed sharper than they had been in this moment.
But even though the individual hits were lost in the blur, the greater picture of this final stand for both men was clear to see for all. For the first time, in this fight, the two stood as true equal. Whilst they had been in stalemates many times throughout the match, it always felt that one had control over the other, it always felt like it was a matchup of defensive vs offensive.
None of that was present here. In this moment, both men stood as complete equal in both offense and defensive. Any blow thrown out by either could have ended the match, and each one of those blows were, deflected, or blocked, or parried, by both individuals. Indeed, the deciding moment in the opening bout would come down to would could outlast the other, or who could get the first strike on the other.
“What and exchange by these two warriors, I can feel my heart about to leap out of my throat I’m so tense right now! Don’t even think about turning away now folks not even for a second!”

Goll was chewing to the root of her fingernails with worry as she again curled up into a ball. “Shitshitshit! This tension is fucking killing me! Please, if their is any justice in fate, just let Henry win already!” she whined desperately.
Arthur meanwhile stood silent and stoic, a rigid and upright as a statue as he surveyed the ongoing battle.
“Arthur? Do you still think they’re gonna win?” Goll asked, teary-eyed.
“I-” Arthur started before looking at the ground, “I cannot say for certain. That Camulus, I don’t know what he’s made of, but it’s tougher than I gave him credit for. It will certainly come down to the wire.”
“Great! We’re doomed! Absolutely doomed!” Goll cried.
A bead of sweat dropped from Arthur’s forehead as he continued, “That said, I still have full faith in Lancelot and his user. They are some of the finest knights I’ve ever seen. If there is any pairing that can beat a god like that, it’s them.” He declared proudly.
“You always say that about Lancelot, don’t you?”
Arthur laughed mirthfully, “HAHA, what king would I be if I didn’t place my faith in my closest friends?”
Goll sighed, ultimately she knew he was right, a true leader had to be able to place their faith in those under their supervision when needed. She could afford to worry now, not when the match was not over yet. Wiping the tears from her eyes, she sprang to her feet and began to cheer.
“C’Mon Henry! C’Mon Lance! Show em’ what we can do!”

The back and forth stalemate continued between the two warriors. As each instant passed the damage of simply maintaining their offensive wore on them more and more, bring both of them closer to their limit. Soon, something would have to give.
Camulus could already feel the pressure building in his head as his eysight began to warp and shift. ‘Dammit, not again, not now!’
In a desperation move, slammed his head directly into the ground. The rocks rumbled and cracked apart from the force of the impact, upsetting Henry’s sense of balance, sending himself stumbling back. With his head cleared, Camulus surged forward in order to press this new advantage. Reacting urgently, Henry slashed the ground, sending dust and debris flying up into the air and into the eyes of Camulus, slowing the gods charge.
As the balance of power threatened to shift in either direction, both moved at once in a desperate bid for control.
[Gae Pretannia]
[Stand of Harfleur]
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The two moves clashed, the sparks flying off the steel shone like the sun as the ripples of sound echoed throughout the Heavens themselves. The impact was so great, not even the combatants could withstand the power of their clash, sending them both backwards. Camulus crashed and rolled along the ground, before smashing into the wall. Henry meanwhile, was just barely able to maintain upright posture, digging his sword into the ground to stop as much of his momentum as possible, but still not enough to stop him from slamming into the far wall. The English King hacked up blood form the sudden impact as he struggled to remain on his feet.
“Damn!” Lancelot shouted, “We don’t have much longer before we’re finished, I can feel it!”
Henry wheezed as he took in a breath. “Neither does he”, he rasped as he observed the god opposite him struggling to stand.

“Camulus is supposed to be the greatest warrior the Celtic Gods have to offer. So why?” Ra gritted his teeth as he looked down upon the match from the highest spot in the stadium, “Why is he taking so long to deal with one measly human?! Are the Celtic Gods that weak?! That their greatest warrior cannot beat one insect into the dust?!”
“I wouldn’t be so quick to disregard humanity’s strengths.” Lucifer responded coyly, “Though they may be naturally beneath up, those humans are capable of some quite remarkable feats of skill and ingenuity. Some are even capable of rivalling us gods.” He espoused, before taking a sip of wine.
“Though I have had many... “disagreements” with my alternate self, the one thought I share with him is that that human we fought... Tesla, I believe his name was, was certainly an impressive combatant to behold. None of the experience of a trained warrior, nor the natural might of even a lower god, yet though his own intelligence made himself into a fighter that would make even the most powerful gods sweat.”
“The fact that any of them struggled, let alone lost to those ungrateful pests, was a disgrace to the title ‘God’. The fact that even a millennia later, we are still struggling is an even bigger one.”
Lucifer sighed, “Well then, why don’t you go down there and show them yourself?”
Ra scoffed, “It is beneath a chief gods to get involved in such affairs.”
“I’m getting involved.” Lucifer responded smugly, “Maybe under all those feathers, there’s a chicken rather than a falcon!”
“I will not dignify your childish insult.” Ra responded wryly.
“Ha! I knew it, you were a chicken!” Lucifer laughed, almost triumphantly.
It was then that Sekhmet decided to make her presence known. “Careful, Lord Lucifer.” She growled, “Insulting father may be the last mistake you make.”
Lucifer simply laughed at her threats, “You’re so funny, Sekkie! Joking around like that, haha...” his grin dropped into a smirk as his expression took on a much darker expression “Cause we both know that if we were in a serious fight, you’d be little more than a kitten to me.”
If she was angry before, she was seething now. Lucifer could see the veins bulging from her head, her eyes shining with rage. Readopting his cheery smile, he addressed the angry cat. “Ah, there’s that look I like from you, Sekkie! You don’t like fun, just like my inferior half, but you at least have that temper that makes you so fun to be around. Beel would just sulk in the corner, but you? You come out with such fire! It’s delightful.”
He then turned to his fellow chief god, “You should probably put a leash on your kitty, she seems ready to go out of control.”
Ra sighed, “Sekhmet, control yourself. He isn’t worth the energy.”
Sekhmet growled, taking a breath to dull her fury. Contented, Lucifer turned his eyes back to the match at hand. “Though, I venture to say you won’t have much longer to worry about.”
“And why’s that?” Ra asked demandingly.
“Because this battle is about to reach its climax.”

Finally back on their feet, both began to stagger back into the centre for another confrontation. By this point, each step was a monumental task for both fighter, every muscle in their body straining and burning upon each movement. It was an uphill struggle for both fighters, one that would soon come to an end.
As they struggle to reach each other, two voices rang out across the silence of the audience.
“Monmouth! Finish this fight!” Hotspur yelled out.
“You can do this Camulus!” Cnabetius cheered.
Gradually more of the two fighters biggest supporters began to vocally voice that support.
“Do it, my boy! Show them the might of a king!” Henry IV bellowed.
“Show that human why you’re our God of War!” Caturix roared.
“Do it, Father!” Henry VI cheered.
“Do it, Camulus!” Lugh thundered.
“Show them a Warrior’s heart!” Richard the Lionheart roared.
“Win this, Lord Camulus!” Andrasta cheered.
Bit by bit, the cheers began to build, as more and more humans and gods joined in, the cheers building into a booming battle cry.
HEN-RY! HEN-RY!
CA-MU-LUS! CA-MU-LUS!
The cheers echoed around the stadium as the audience voiced their support as loudly as their lungs would allow. The cheers were like the drums of war, carrying each warriors forwards for their final assault. As they finally reached the centre of the arena, they took a moment to take it all in.
"Hehe, seems they’re ready for us, friend.” Camulus commented.
“So we’re friends now?” Henry joked, a soft smile on his face.
“I’d say we are after all we’ve been through. We maybe be trying to kill each other, but we both know that it’s nothing personal.” Camulus responded with a grin as he readied his guard.
“I suppose you’re right. I have nothing against you, even if I have to cut you down.” Henry replied, shifting into his own stance.
At once, they moved once more, Camulus Awakening fully as Henry reactivated Royal Instinct. Like a river flowing back and forth, the momentum of blows moved back and forth. Steel and brass criss-crossed over each other as both tried to fight that one opening, that one decisive blow they would need to put the other down.
‘Damnit, not now!’ Camulus pleaded desperately with himself as his could feel his mind blurring over.
‘It hurts.’ Henry winced, as his brain began to burn from the overload of information.
Each fighters blows became more desperate and wild, trying to strike each other down before their own bodies failed them.
‘NO! Control it! You aren’t the boss of me! I control my power, I decided what I do, not my power!’ Camulus roared in his head, beating back the delusions and focusing his mind, sharpening his concentration like a blade.
‘Pain doesn’t matter. Whatever pain I have to go through is for a righteous cause.’ Henry forced the searing pain of Royal Instinct down, hardening himself against the damage, as tight and tough as a fist.
Breaking for less than a moment, the renewed battle became even more ferocious than before, both functioning at their absolute peak. Nothing less would do, for both had a job to do, people to honour and protect.
‘King Henry of the English, you’ve done well. I wish I could have met you under different circumstances, I know we would have been good friends then. But I can’t afford to lose, this fight, my friends are waiting for me, and I won’t fail them. So I’ll beat you into the ground for them.’
‘Camulus of the Celtic Gods, you were a noble opponent. It would have been good to have met you in different time. You would have been a great ally, and perhaps, an even better friend. But I have duties to uphold. My family, my subject, all of humanity are counting on me to bring humanity the first win, to set us on the right course, and I intent not to fail them. I will strike you down in their name.”
The clattered of metals beat together like drums reaching their crescendo, ready for the final beat. The arena, the world at large, held its breath in anticipation for that final beat, the final blow of Round 1.
Brass and steel clashed one final time, sending both skidding back, though both just managed to hold their ground. “Not good, you barely even have enough energy to stend, let alone fight!”
“He doesn’t have much energy left either...” Henry rasped, “and I have enough energy, enough to land one more hit.”
Henry adopted his stance, letting the world pass over him, letting all of creation flow around him. This was his last gamble, so he would make it count. The air began to ripple with heat as he readied for the critical strike.
Camulus took a stance, letting his soul burn bright, he connected his shoulder to the sacred flame within all Celtic Gods. He was ready to burn if it meant victory. Fire blazed to life, coating his arm in rolling flame as he tensed in preparation for the final attack.
‘I won’t fail.’ Camulus declared internally, steeling himself.
‘I can’t fail.’ Was Henry’s determined thought.
Camulus jumped forward, leaping into the air as he locked his arm back, the fires blazing as he readied his strike. Henry swung his arm back, his sword beginning to glow with the heat, gradually turning from a cool grey to an intense orange.
‘I.’
‘I.’
‘WILL.’
‘WILL.’
“WIIIIIIIINNNNN!!” Both declared in union as they struck.
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The flames bellowed as Camulus thrust his arm forward, punching apart the air itself as his fist blazed with fire.
[Sacred Fire:]
Henry lunged, the blade looping back around as it cut forward, seeming to slash through the space it occupied as it drew closer to its target.
[Shakespearean Riposte: Agincourt]
In the moment the final clash met, the battle was decided.
Camulus’ blow flew just over the blade, as thus Henry. Though the flames kicked at Henry’s flesh, the king pressed forward. Steel bit into flesh, cutting through the muscle, then the bone. In a instant, Camulus’ arm had been completely removed from his body.
Henry had won the battle.
But he failed to hit anything vital.
This was the moment Camulus had been waiting for. Using the momentum from Henry’s blow, he brought his arm low, then swung upwards in one monstrous uppercut. As the flames dissipated from the severed arm, they blazed to life upon the arm that remained. Using every ounce of energy he had left, he would strike true.
[Aos Sí]
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The blow struck true, smashing into Henry’s sternum, the flames burned at Henry’s body as the fist speared and smashed through the torso. Camulus brass knuckles was smashed to bits as the glove burned away from the heat and force generated by this one almighty blow.
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Henry was sent flying from the unstoppable blow. As he flew through the air, he reflected on what led to this moment. About what he could have done to change the scenario. Maybe if he hadn’t sacrificed his arm, maybe if he hadn’t used Royal Intinct as much as he did, he would have won.
No.
In the end he could only come to one conclusion, one outcome. Camulus was too strong, both in body and in spirit for the king to overcome.
He had won the battle, but lost the war.
He crashed back into the dirt. This time, there was no getting back up. This was the end.
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A few feet away, Lancelot sat there, his form slowly breaking apart as it turned to emerald. He looked up the see Arthur, the king he fought for, the king he was now dying for. “I’m sorry, my king,” Lancelot said quiet, no longer having the strength to speak with authority, “I could not live up to your standard.”
“I think you did OK.” Henry wheezed, body leaking down the corners of his mouth.
“Shut up.” Lancelot responded half heartedly.
Henry laughed softly, “I’m sure King Arthur would agree with me, if he were down here with us.”
Taking in Henry’s words for a moment, before lowering his head and smiling earnestly “Thank you, King Henry.”
As Lancelot began to crack apart, he lifted his head to look at his king once again, keeping the smile on his face. “I’ll see you on... the other side.”
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The last of Lancelot’s form shattered into dust, scattering into the wind.
It was then Henry’s time to go. He turned to emerald as his form began to crack apart.
By now, Camulus was back on his feet, but all his energy was spent, spending the moment panting deeply, trying to work up enough energy to even take a step. “You were a great opponent, King Henry of the English, it was an honour to fight you.”
Henry sighed as a smile came upon his face, “Thank you, Camulus of the Celts, it was an honour to fight you also.”
Henry wanted to say he would be entering into Niflhel with no regrets, but that would be a bold-faced lie. In his mind, he had failed. Humanity had lost the first round because of him, and those he cared about were one step closer to Extinction as a result. But if there was one silver lining in all that sadness, it was that he was felled by a worthy opponent.
“You were the best fight I have ever had, Henry of the English.” Camulus declared, “Whether I live a thousand more years or a million, I will never forget you for as long as I live.”
The English King’s smile deepened, even as tears were in his eyes, as he took in Camulus’ words. As his form continued to crack apart, he imparted one final message to the rest of humanity, “Though I may have to leave, there will be other after me to continue the fight, and as long as there are those willing to fight, hope will never die.”
CRACK!
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"Do what I could not."
Those were his last words before shattering into dust, blowing into the wind, before disappearing entirely. Nothing was left of the once proud king. And yet, his legacy for live on.
Camulus stood there looking where his fallen foe had once been. For the first time in his life, there was no satisfaction in victory, there was no joy in survival. The only thing Camulus felt was the sadness of how needless it all felt, the loss of someone as great as the man he had just fought.
“The winner of Round 1...” Heimdall proudly declared, “is the Celtic God of War, Camulus!”
Camulus looked toward the sky, where the remains of Henry had flown off, uttering a thought softly to himself.
“I hope you find happiness, wherever you have gone.”
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Connections:

• Retired Professional Killers who are infamous more by their nicknames rather than by their actual real names (Baba Yaga/ The Beekeeper)
  
• Retired Professionals who are brought out of retirement because of the death of someone close to them (Daisy/ Eloise Parker)
  
• The deaths were the resulting actions (Killing Daisy and stealing Wick’s ca stealing all of Eloise’s money to the point she committed suicide) of young wannabe badass chickshit sons of powerful figures (Iosef Tarasov/ Derek Danforth) and their equally stupid friend (Victo Mickey)
  
• Their friend is the first one to go and the sons are then told over their friends’ phone by the pros that they’re coming for them
  
• After the word about their actions reaches an old man (Viggo Tarasov/ Wallace Westwyld) in their work professions, those old men are actually nervous and tell those sons that they fucked up on a biblical level, with those sons not understanding.
  
• These sons also happen to have powerful figures for a parent that have a huge empire as well (Viggo Tarasov: Iosef’s Father and Crime Boss of a Russian Gang/ President Danforth: Derek’s mom who was the former head of Danforth Enterprises and current President of the United States)
  
• Despite the older figures thinking it’s suicide to fight these assassins, who they consider are a force of nature, they still send out men to try and kill them…which fails miserably.
  
• They even send a psychopathic woman who is part of the same organization as them to try and get them killed…and that also fails.
  
• Along the way the pros keep going around and burning down (literally) these empires all in their quest for vengeance till they eventually get to the sons
  
• Eventually the parents realize the damage and decide that the best thing to do is accept the fact that their sons have burned down their legacies and let justice be served (Viggo gives up his son for John to kill/ President Danforth decides it’s best to tell everyone about her son’s actions which he used stolen money to finance her presidential campaign)
  
• Bonus facts: both are portrayed by middle aged actors with a long history of actions films though they are also notable for not being the best actors that after a long career created a film that is considered one of their best
  

Gypsy Rose Blanchard previously spoke about wanting to team up with Kim Kardashian to work on prison reform together.​
Surprise! Season 5 of The Kardashians kicked off with a shocking moment on Thursday. In preview footage for the rest of the season, Kim Kardashian knocks on a door and is met with the newly freed Gypsy Rose Blanchard. In the clip, Kim is wearing a brown, shearling-lined coat, and says, "Hi, Gypsy!"
Gypsy, who is clad in a white lace top and black skirt, greets the reality star with an enthusiastic "Hi!" before the two hug.
The moment wasn't predicted as neither Kim nor Gypsy have revealed that they have met in person.
Gypsy has been vocal about wanting to work with Kim on the topic of prison reform after spending eight years behind bars.
After Kim included Gypsy's 2017 documentary, Mommy Dead and Dearest, on her list of must-watch true crime shows, Gypsy replied to the shout-out, writing, "Maybe we should unite forces together to make real change within the justice system."
For her part, Kim is known for her work with multiple presidential administrations, working to get inmates released early. She is also studying to become an official lawyer herself.
Gypsy went to prison for her involvement in the killing of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. Gypsy and her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, were convicted in 2016 for orchestrating the murder of Dee Dee, who had been manipulating her daughter's life, portraying her as terminally ill.
Earlier this month, Gypsy spoke with ET about the next chapter of her life, saying, "I think that I'm entering into a new era in my life, definitely, having learned a lot about me over these last four months. I think that right now I'm just trying to move forward in my life and kind of showing who I am and discovering."
New episodes of The Kardashians stream Thursdays on Hulu.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard previously spoke about wanting to team up with Kim Kardashian to work on prison reform together.​
Surprise! Season 5 of The Kardashians kicked off with a shocking moment on Thursday. In preview footage for the rest of the season, Kim Kardashian knocks on a door and is met with the newly freed Gypsy Rose Blanchard. In the clip, Kim is wearing a brown, shearling-lined coat, and says, "Hi, Gypsy!"
Gypsy, who is clad in a white lace top and black skirt, greets the reality star with an enthusiastic "Hi!" before the two hug.
The moment wasn't predicted as neither Kim nor Gypsy have revealed that they have met in person.
Gypsy has been vocal about wanting to work with Kim on the topic of prison reform after spending eight years behind bars.
After Kim included Gypsy's 2017 documentary, Mommy Dead and Dearest, on her list of must-watch true crime shows, Gypsy replied to the shout-out, writing, "Maybe we should unite forces together to make real change within the justice system."
For her part, Kim is known for her work with multiple presidential administrations, working to get inmates released early. She is also studying to become an official lawyer herself.
Gypsy went to prison for her involvement in the killing of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. Gypsy and her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, were convicted in 2016 for orchestrating the murder of Dee Dee, who had been manipulating her daughter's life, portraying her as terminally ill.
Earlier this month, Gypsy spoke with ET about the next chapter of her life, saying, "I think that I'm entering into a new era in my life, definitely, having learned a lot about me over these last four months. I think that right now I'm just trying to move forward in my life and kind of showing who I am and discovering."
New episodes of The Kardashians stream Thursdays on Hulu.

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Neighboring Country’s Mean Behavior: Written by Jong Phil

Pyongyang, February 23, 2017 (KCNA) — The DPRK made a complete success in the test-fire of surface-to-surface medium to long-range strategic ballistic missile Pukguksong-2 on February 12 under the energetic guidance of respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. The news instantly jolted the world and the international community is acknowledging the nuclear attack capability of the DPRK that has made rapid progress in quality.
Leading media of the world are unanimous in assessing that the acknowledged success in the test-fire of Pukguksong-2 was a demonstration of the DPRK’s strategic superiority as it proved impossibility of advance detection by satellite, interception and preemptive attack.
However, a neighboring country, which often claims itself to be a “friendly neighbor”, is downplaying the significance of the test-fire, branding it as a “nuclear technology just at the beginning” and threatening “the DPRK will suffer the biggest loss.”
In particular, it has unhesitatingly taken inhumane steps such as totally blocking foreign trade related to the improvement of people’s living standard under the plea of the UN “resolutions on sanctions” devoid of legal ground.
It has often stated that the UN “resolutions on sanctions” should not have negative impact on the people’s living. Its recent measures are, in effect, tantamount to the enemies’ moves to bring down the social system in the DPRK.
This country, styling itself a big power, is dancing to the tune of the U.S. while defending its mean behavior with such excuses that it was meant not to have a negative impact on the living of the people in the DPRK but to check its nuclear program.
The righteous voices of the world deride it, commenting that “a big neighboring country is imposing sanctions on the DPRK to curry favor with the U.S.” But the hostile forces are shouting “bravo” over this.
The DPRK manufactured a nuclear weapon in a few years, which would take others tens of years, and completed the new latest strategic weapon system in a matter of six months with its own efforts and indigenous technology. This shows the might of its tremendous defence industry.
It is utterly childish to think that the DPRK would not manufacture nuclear weapons and inter-continental ballistic rockets if a few penny of money is cut off.
The DPRK will produce the latest weapons unprecedented in history as many as it wants as it has the self-reliant defence industry, provided by President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il with their lifelong dedication, and scientists and technicians in the field of defence industry working hard in do-or-die spirit guided by the faith that the strategic idea and intention of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea must be put into practice.
These weapons would invest the DPRK with capabilities for protecting peace and stability in Northeast Asia and the rest of the world.
The present reality makes the people of the DPRK keenly feel once again the validity of the WPK’s line of simultaneously pushing forward the economic construction and the building of nuclear force.
The DPRK will invariably advance straight along the road indicated by the Party’s line and deal a heavy blow to the U.S. and its vassal forces by dint of powerful nuclear deterrence and thus win the final victory.

Are You Good at Dancing to Tune of Others: Jong Phil

Pyongyang, April 21, 2017 (KCNA) — The following is the full text of “Are you good at dancing to the tune of others”, a commentary written by Jong Phil Friday:
Not a single word about the U.S. act of pushing the situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of a war after introducing hugest-ever strategic assets into the waters off the Korean peninsula is made but such rhetoric as “necessary step” and “reaction at decisive level” is openly heard from a country around the DPRK to intimidate it over its measures for self-defence.
Particularly, the country is talking rubbish that the DPRK has to reconsider the importance of relations with it and that it can help preserve security of the DPRK and offer necessary support and aid for its economic prosperity, claiming the latter will not be able to survive the strict “economic sanctions” by someone.
Its official media claimed on April 18 that the DPRK’s pursuance of nuclear and missile program made the U.S., which had been its rival in the past, its supporter now. Then question is what the DPRK should call that country and how the DPRK should deal with it in the future.
The DPRK’s nuclear deterrence for self-defence, its army and people built by tightening their belts to defend the sovereignty and right to existence of the nation, is by no means a bargaining chip for getting something.
The DPRK has been so far exposed to economic sanctions but it has kept to the path of justice chosen by it with its own efforts.
The present world ruled by the jungle law makes the DPRK realize once again the iron truth that there is nothing but its own strength to rely on and that self-reliance and self-development are the only way out.
If the country keeps applying economic sanctions on the DPRK while dancing to the tune of someone after misjudging the will of the DPRK, it may be applauded by the enemies of the DPRK but it should get itself ready to face the catastrophic consequences in the relations with the DPRK.
The DPRK will defend its dignity and build a paradise for the people with its own efforts, rallied close around the respected Supreme Leader.

Commentary on DPRK-China Relations

Pyongyang, May 3, 2017 (KCNA) — Kim Chol released a commentary on Wednesday, titled “Reckless words and deeds undermining the DPRK-China relations must be stopped” the full text of which reads:
Very serious is concern at home and abroad about the anti-DPRK racket for putting sanctions and military pressure on it kicked up by the U.S. and its vassal forces with the DPRK’s possession of nuclear weapons as a pretext, racket which renders the situation on the Korean peninsula acute with each passing moment.
A string of absurd and reckless remarks are now heard from big neighboring countries, perhaps frightened by the U.S. blackmail and war racket, every day only to render the acute situation of the Korean peninsula more strained.
Typical examples are stories poured out by the People’s Daily and the Global Times, widely known as media speaking for the official stand of the Chinese party and government.
Recently they in their commentaries asserted that the DPRK’s access to nukes poses a threat to the national interests of China. They shifted the blame for the deteriorated relations between the DPRK and China on to the DPRK and raised lame excuses to justify China’s base acts of dancing to the tune of the U.S.
Those commentaries claimed that the DPRK poses a threat to “the security in the northeastern region of China” by conducting nuclear tests less than 100 km away from its border with China. They even talked rubbish that the DPRK strains the situation in Northeast Asia and “offers the U.S. excuses for deploying more strategic assets” in the region.
Not content with such paradox, the commentaries asserted that to remain averse to the DPRK’s access to nukes is to preserve interests common to the U.S. and China, calling for slapping harsher sanctions on the DPRK in order to avert a war which would bring danger to China.
The newspapers, even claiming China holds the initiative in handling the DPRK-China relations, made no scruple of letting out a string of provocative remarks urging the DPRK to choose one out of the two options i.e. “whether to face protracted isolation by breaking Sino-DPRK friendship or to preserve national security by making a U-turn of dismantling its nukes”, if it doesn’t want military confrontation with China.
This is just a wanton violation of the independent and legitimate rights, dignity and supreme interests of the DPRK and, furthermore, constitutes an undisguised threat to the honest-minded neighboring country with which it has had long history and tradition of friendship.
We do not have any intentional wish to explain the unavoidability that forced us to have access to nukes to become a nuclear weapons state acknowledged by the public at home and abroad, and detail all the courses that were never a smooth sailing.
What is infuriating is the fact that it is totally undermining the DPRK-China relations, that were pioneered at the cost of blood and have been consolidated and developed decade after decade and century after century, by citing absurd pretext and showing no less aversion than the one shown by the U.S. and other hostile forces over the nuclear issue with which it has nothing to do.
China is often hyping up “damage caused by the DPRK’s nuclear tests” to its three northeastern provinces. This is a far-fetched assertion devoid of scientific ground and validity.
Five nuclear tests by the DPRK were conducted with full guarantee given to security and even those Koreans living near the nuclear test ground have never suffered any damage after the tests.
The U.S. carried out scrupulous observation of the processes of the nuclear tests with the use of ultra-modern information means equipped with nuclear substance collecting equipment. But it failed to trap even a trace amount of radioactive materials like xenon. China is well aware of this.
Trumpeting about sort of “damage”, in defiance of this stark fact, only reveals the ulterior purpose of China displeased with the DPRK’s rapid nuclear development.
As far as “violation of national interests” oft-repeated by politicians and media persons of China is concerned, it is just the issue that the DPRK should rather talk much about.
It was never China but just the DPRK whose strategic interests have been repeatedly violated due to insincerity and betrayal on the part of its partner.
China established diplomatic relations with the south Korean puppet forces keen on bringing down the socialist system in the DPRK and has deepened the scope of relations to politics and even military, beyond pure economic exchanges. What excuse can it make for its crime of turning not only the three provinces in the northeastern part of China but the whole country into an advanced base against the DPRK. Now in areas along the DPRK-China border including the basins of the River Amnok and the River Tuman, agents and spies of the south Korean Intelligence Service are engaged in secret maneuvers under the guise of religionist and businessman, openly hatching plots and conducting abduction and terrorist acts against the DPRK. China has to hold full responsibilities for this.
We clearly remember that it had let such human scum as Park Geun Hye, who was ousted from the post of power and thrown into prison being censured by all people, stand on the tribune of honor at Tiananmen Square and given a kiss to her.
Some theorists of China are spouting a load of nonsense that the DPRK’s access to nukes strains the situation in Northeast Asia and offers the U.S. an excuse for beefing up its strategic assets in the region. But the U.S. had activated its strategy for dominating Asia-Pacific long before the DPRK had access to nukes, and its primary target is just China.
China should acknowledge in an honest manner that the DPRK has just contributed to protecting peace and security of China, foiling the U.S. scheme for aggression by waging a hard fight in the frontline of the showdown with the U.S. for more than seven decades, and thank the DPRK for it.
Some ignorant politicians and media persons of China daringly assert that the traditional relations of the DPRK-China friendship were in line with the interests of both countries in the past. They are advised to clearly understand the essence of history before opening their mouth.
Korea and China are neighbors which are closely related geographically and countries of peculiar relations, relations of comrade-in-arms and brothers, whose preceding leaders had nurtured the feelings of friendship in the struggle for common cause, holding high the flags drenched with red blood.
The anti-Japanese war and the war against the U.S. are recorded with heroic tales that will remain indelible in the contemporary histories of Korea and China, and the sons and daughters of the two countries deepened friendship with selfless sacrifice and devotion that far surpass nationality in the hard-fought battlefields.
On the center stage of the world politics affected by the vortex of the troublous 20th century, the two countries pooled intention and efforts to defend the banner of socialism and sovereignty.
It was not just for the interests of Korea that we rendered devoted assistance to the Chinese revolution and showed sincerity to the party and government of China whenever they faced difficulties, even facing huge damage. Anyone with even a little common sense and reason might be well aware of this even though we do not open to public the skeleton in the cupboard that existed between the DPRK and China.
But by deliberately leaving all this in the dark, China is parroting the “unanimous view of the international community” cried by the U.S. and resorting to sanctions racket after branding the DPRK as a criminal, pursuant to the forces hostile toward the DPRK. This is an intolerable act aimed to deny the mainstay of the DPRK-China relations and do away with the noble tradition of bilateral friendship.
It is not the DPRK that passed the “red line” in bilateral relations but it is China which has unhesitatingly passed the line.
By the “red line”, the two countries were meant not to violate the dignity, interests and sovereignty of each other.
For the DPRK, the nuclear weapons are its absolute symbol and represent its supreme interests.
The DPRK have had access to nukes to defend the country and the people from the aggression moves and threats which the world’s biggest nuclear power U.S. has posed decade after decade with an aim to deprive the DPRK of its political ideology, social system and dignity. The mission of the DPRK’s nuclear weapons will remain unchanged in the future, too.
However, they are threatening that they would not rule out military intervention, to say nothing of highly-intensive economic sanctions if the DPRK does not give up nuclear program. This is extremely arrogant chauvinist logic that not only the strategic interests of the DPRK but also its dignity and right to existence must be sacrificed for their interests.
One must clearly understand that the DPRK’s line of access to nukes for the existence and development of the country can neither be changed nor shaken and that the DPRK will never beg for the maintenance of friendship with China, risking its nuclear program which is as precious as its own life, no matter how valuable the friendship is.
Some expect that the DPRK will not be able to subsist without help from someone and it will give up and beg for the restoration of relations if the string of sanctions is tightened just a little more. This is a foolish calculation. The source and foundation of the existence of the DPRK is our own land, our own sky and our own natural resources and the tremendous power of self-development displayed by its great people in the indomitable spirit.
The DPRK, which has already become one of the most powerful nuclear weapons state, does not feel the need to think over how many options it has now.
The geopolitical importance and strategic value of the Korean peninsula situated at the entrance to the Eurasian continent are growing with each passing day, and roads to Pyongyang that has ranked itself with dignity among the most advanced nuclear powers are stretched all around the world.
China should no longer try to test the limits of patience of the DPRK but make proper strategic option, facing up to the situation.
China approved the adoption of the unwarranted “sanctions resolutions” on the DPRK at the UN Security Council meeting in order to check the U.S. THAAD deployment in south Korea and opted for sanctions against the DPRK, even suffering economic damage in the three northeastern provinces of its own. Even though it made concession and flattered, defying all accusations, THAAD targeting China like a dagger was deployed all of a sudden at midnight in south Korea, making fun of the truly “idiot giant”.
If China fails to maintain its own principle and throws away the fraternity with the DPRK it has maintained for decades like a pair of old shoes just for the immediate interests, it will end up in miserable state not trusted by anyone to only face misfortune from all sides.
China had better ponder over the grave consequences to be entailed by its reckless act of chopping down the pillar of the DPRK-China relations.

Is Russia Sightless or Is It Mimicking Blind: Researcher of Institute for International Studies

Pyongyang, August 9, 2017 (KCNA) — Ri Chol Ho, a researcher of the Institute for International Studies of the DPRK, on Wednesday issued the following article titled “Is Russia Sightless or Is It Mimicking the Blind”:
The news of the successful launch of inter-continental ballistic rockets of the DPRK, which put the whole land of the U.S., empire of evil, within its striking range, has been afloat all over the world as breaking news.
The U.S., an aggression state which brandished a nuclear stick of aggression and oppression decade after decade, has finally been dumbfounded in the face of the Juche weapon, and the whole world now turn its eyes to Songun Korea with admiration.
The international community was unanimous in commenting in high terms that the fact that the DPRK’s ICBM reached the maximum height of more than 3 700 km and flew nearly 1 000 km and that the launch was made at high angle launch system more rigorous than actual maximum range flight conditions is demonstrative of the substantial might which is capable of putting even the eastern areas of the U.S. including New York, to say nothing of the western areas of the U.S., within the firing range.
The DPRK’s ICBM, a noble fruition of its great policy of simultaneously developing the economic construction and the building of nuclear force, is clearly recorded in space as a pronoun of defence of international justice and peace, both in name and reality.
But only Russia is making a far-fetched assertion, denying this stark fact unanimously acknowledged by the world community, while feigning blind and deaf.
Russia, a country bordering the Korean peninsula, is calling the DPRK’s ICBM a medium-range ballistic rocket with 681 km of height and 732 km of distance. This is utterly ironical.
The U.S., situated in the American continent across the ocean, dares not deny the fact even though it is reluctant more than others to acknowledge the DPRK’s success in the ICBM launch. A big question is how come the ICBM of the DPRK is taken as medium-range ballistic rocket by Russia, a country very close to the DPRK.
Another question is that Russia, which will be grouchy if it is ranked second in military standings, is making desperate efforts to make its far-fetched assertions sound plausible while misusing even the name of the Defence Ministry.
The world people are watching the erratic act of Russia with surprise as its authorities and the public have differing stand over the launch. Lots of military experts, media and social circles of Russia are unanimously acknowledging the launch as ICBM launch but this is denied only by the authorities.
What is skeptical is that whether Russia’s temporal concept on object is not ruled by its perversity and jealousy that big country’s rifle should be regarded as a rocket and small country’s rocket should be taken as a rifle.
For years, Russia took outwardly strong stand toward the U.S., as it used to say that “sanctions resolutions” against the DPRK should not affect the normal economic and trade activities of the DPRK and its people’s living at a time when the issue was on agenda at UN even though Russia was subject to trouble as a key target of sanctions and pressure by the U.S. Therefore, the world has been skeptical about its assertion of calling the ICBM a medium-range ballistic rocket. However, Russia, which had showed bravery as if it was going to hinder the adoption of the “resolution sanctions” on the DPRK, boarded the ship operated by the U.S. all of a sudden to be “complimented” by Trump. This is quite enough for the world to guess what was the true aim sought by Russia in insisting that the ICBM of the DPRK was a medium-range ballistic rocket.
The far-fetched assertion of Russia has become an engine that heartened the DPRK to work for more launches of ICBM and compelled it to take new measures of action.
It will be clear to Russia itself whether it is really the blind or is feigning the blind.
If Russia does not drop its own “big power concept” which it values so much, the reality in which it is not treated as a big power even though it is a big power will be its permanent destiny.

Kim Jong Un Guides Hwasong-12 Launching Drill Again

Pyongyang, September 16, 2017 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army, guided once again a launching drill of the medium-and-long range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 on the spot. (…)
He told leading officials of the Department of Munitions Industry of the Party Central Committee and the field of defense scientific research accompanying him that our final goal is to establish the equilibrium of real force with the U.S. and make the U.S. rulers dare not talk about military option for the DPRK. And he stressed the need to run at full speed and straight, continuing to qualitatively consolidate the military attack capacity for nuclear counterattack the U.S. cannot cope with.
As recognized by the whole world, we have made all these achievements despite the UN sanctions that have lasted for decades but never made them from any “benefit” of the UN, he said, adding it is very stifling for those countries styling themselves big powers keeping their minds on bringing to their knees the DPRK through UN sanctions.
We should clearly show the big power chauvinists how our state attain the goal of completing its nuclear force despite their limitless sanctions and blockade, he said, underlining the need to put an end to them with the all-state efforts as it has nearly reached the terminal.

Chinese Media’s Shameless and Impudent Acts Blasted

Pyongyang, September 22, 2017 (KCNA) — Following is the full text of a signed article “Rude Deed of Shameless Media”:
Some media of China are seriously hurting the line and social system of the DPRK and threatening the DPRK at a time when the U.S. and its vassal forces have reached the extremes in their frantic moves to impose sanctions and pressure on the DPRK over the DPRK’s just exercise of its right to self-defence.
The Chinese People’s Daily and its sister paper Huan Qui Shibao and websites People’s Network and Huan Qui Network insulted the DPRK, saying “it pricked its own eyes with its own hands” and “it was a noose put around its own neck” while shunning the legitimacy of the DPRK’s possession of nuclear weapons and the self-defensive nature of its measure for bolstering the national nuclear force. Not content with this, they said “it would face the fate of sun setting in the western sky” and set forth such presumptuous “initiatives” as “international solidarity” and organization of “forum international think-tank” for settling the nuclear issue of the DPRK.
As for the “sanctions resolution” against the DPRK, the dirty excrement of the reactionaries of history, they spouted such extremely ill-boding words that China “did not target the normal living of the people in the DPRK” and “DPRK is fortunate to have China as its neighbor”.
In a word, their comment meant that the small country DPRK put itself and the international community as a whole at a “peril” for standing against “the world’s superpower” with the manufacture of nuclear weapons, and that there is nothing to be displeased over the step of decrease of food taken to make the DPRK, “chief culprit rendering the world restless” get exhausted.
This can not be construed otherwise than an act of the blind whose eyes are open and the deaf and dumb who look outwardly normal as they can not understand the essence of the nuclear issue of the Korean peninsula nor can they properly see, hear and express the changed international political situation in the wake of the DPRK’s possession of nuclear weapons.
Moreover, the news media openly faulted the line of other sovereign state. This makes one think that it was quite natural for them to lose trust from people of their own country and the international community to not a small measure due to their self-complacence and prejudice.
Even though they can be pretexts to shield their clumsy plight of getting dragged on by the U.S., we can not connive at their acts of dare hurting the dignity of the state and people of the DPRK.
As was already emphasized, the DPRK’s access to a nuclear deterrence was pursuant to the strategic decision of the party and state of the DPRK to fundamentally terminate the decade-old U.S. hideous hostile policy toward the DPRK and nuclear threat and blackmail, and this finally led the DPRK to possess H-bomb for ICBM, the absolute weapons on the earth.
Even at this moment, the U.S. hatches sinister scheme of provoking a nuclear war and is holding dangerous secret war confab after introducing to the Korean peninsula and the region huge strategic hardware enough to fight several wars while openly calling for “totally destroying north Korea”.
History and reality teach a serious lesson that only powerful strength can defend oneself from the tyrannical nuclear weapons.
The military attack on Syria committed in the eyes of neighboring big powers including China in April last showed the world in practice what the “peace by strength” touted by the Trump administration meant, and Beijing might have felt not a great deal.
What matters is that how can The Chinese People’s Daily and media under it which had trumpeted about “sovereignty and independence in the road for social progress” and “peculiar sovereign position” spout principle-less nonsense that are mocked even by Trump’s twitters.
If they are not novice reptile media devoid of insight and their own view to the international politics, they should be well aware of themselves before commenting on others.
Now heard from DPRK-China border are reflective complaints on who became hopeless as the consequences of the U.S.-manipulated “sanctions resolution” on the DPRK.
A Chinese businessman who was left empty-handed in the trade with the DPRK said: I don’t know politics and diplomacy. But one thing is clear. Korea, not a big country, is talking what it wants to say and does what it wants to do while standing against the U.S., the superpower. It’s hard to understand what’s wrong with China. Lots of minor businesses in three northeastern provinces of China are suffering huge losses. Then why does it kowtow to the U.S. I really feel shame. I am more afraid of the corruption of the state than the corruption of people.
This is the public mindset.
Literally speaking, media styling themselves speaking for the people had better use their heads to read the people’s mindset and speak for the people of their own country, rather than admonishing others.
If it is the organ of a party styling itself the initiator of “principle of non-interference” outside, it can stand with dignity before the world people only when it maintains this principle.
As for “good neighbor”, the DPRK has much more to say about it.
When the Soviet Union and the U.S. and the whole world released denunciation statements over the first nuclear test carried out by China in the 1960s, it was only the DPRK, good neighbor, which actively supported it and encouraged it through government statement.
When high-spirited White House owner set out on his trip to China, its neighbor DPRK released a worldwide aphorism that Nixon’s China visit was not a march of victor but a trip of loser with a white flag in his hand, thus helping the big neighbor save shame and maintain its face. China might know this sincere neighbor more than itself.
Then why is it going under the armpit of the U.S. while holding a white flag to blame the good neighbor.
Nixon, suffering from disease from wrath by the unusual principle and resourcefulness of the DPRK which stopped the historical disgrace which could have been a shame on the socialist camp, had called for a “war with China” till the last day of his leave from office. This is quite alike the act of Trump who is teasing Beijing, caught in the trap of “world economy”, under the pretext of “nuclear issue of Korea”. It is seen by the whole world.
The DPRK knows which way it should follow.
The DPRK does not have to lie on its face just as China did when it visited the U.S. and there is no need for China to force the DPRK to learn it.
History proved that the path covered by the DPRK for nearly one century has been an un-trodden path through thick and thin but it was far-sighted and promising option as this helped the country escape the tragic events witnessed in Eastern Europe which was mentally disarmed in the face of the imperialists, and as this helped others to evade clumsy situation of not breathing properly being caught in the noose of dollars.
The Korean people have learned the might of unity and happiness even though they did not lead a plentiful life and they have the perspective and generosity of looking far into the dawning tomorrow in the darkness.
As for the fortune of the DPRK, its people are not such ignorant people who foresee their fortune by money or divination sign.
Though small in territory and population, the people of the DPRK have such fortune which no other country and nation has and therefore, we feel sorrowful at the neighbor seeking money only without its own soul even though it is big.
Lots of countries and peoples of the world are keenly realizing where lies the genuine fortune of each country and nation while viewing the admirable DPRK greeting the great change in its destiny and standing against the “world’s only superpower” while taking the lead of the struggle to defend peace of the region and the world, although it had its territory totally usurped by big powers keen on scramble and was trampled down under them in the past because it was weak in strength.
Truly frustrating is the perspective of the political hangers-on who are just satisfied to have their rice bowl safe even though the neighbor is thieved while considering Korea just as a front yard and “buffer zone” for holding back the invasion by robber.
It is the U.S. and other dishonest and hostile forces who are taking issue this or that way while doggedly shunning the reality of Juche Korea.
The light act of China’s media openly resorting to interference in the internal affairs of other country, being oblivious of the mission of media which should regard objectivity and impartiality as their lifeline, would be little short of driving a wedge between the two countries and the two peoples, pursuant to the U.S.
The party organ of the socialist country bragging long history denounced socialist Korea so maliciously in collusion with the imperialists. This leaves us think that whether they can be entitled to enter the coming party conference hall only when they register the dirty reptile records of betraying the peoples of the two countries.
The Chinese media had better watch how the DPRK smashes the hostile forces’ arrogance and high-handed practices, rather than kowtowing to the ignorant acts of the Trump administration.
They had better mind their own businesses, before impudently pointing an accusing finger at others.
Korea is a land of rising sun as its name implies and one has to turn one’s head toward China to watch the sun setting in the western sky in Korea.

Chinese Media Slashed for Arrogantly Meddling in Event of Korean Nation

Pyongyang, February 8, 2018 (KCNA) — The following is the full text of “For what they despicably intrude on other’s affair”, an article written by Jong Phil which was carried on the DPRK’s leading newspapers Thursday:
The ties between the north and the south of Korea are now on the track of positive development.
Thanks to the DPRK’s proactive proposal and steps, a breakthrough was made toward detente, peace and improvement of the relations between the north and the south and the enthusiasm of the fellow countrymen to hold the Winter Olympics as a successful event of the nation is sweeping the whole Korean Peninsula.
At this time, some media of China, not to be left behind the U.S. and Japan, reactionaries of history, are letting out impudent arguments of individual experts, seriously spoiling the atmosphere for the feast.
The Chinese Central TV Network on Feb. 5 aired an assertion of a vice-researcher of the Institute for Asia-Pacific and World Strategy under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: The DPRK calculated to show an open aspect of the country and improve its international image through the south Korea visit by the president of the Presidium of its Supreme People’s Assembly. The international community is expecting the DPRK to show greater sincerity and concession over the denuclearization issue if it truly hopes for promoting the detente on the Korean peninsula. Unless it does so, it will be difficult for the DPRK to attain its purpose.
On the same day, the Global Times of China’s People’s Daily carried an argument made by a senior research fellow at the China Institute of International Studies that restoring inter-Korean relations without touching on the nuclear issue is unsustainable and fragile.
Earlier in January, some Chinese media made wicked assertions that the sustenance of the atmosphere for detente on the Korean peninsula is closely related to the solution of the “nuclear issue of the DPRK” and that “detente will not last long without common recognition of the denuclearization”.
Such incoherent talks heard from Chinese media can not but be retorted as an arrogant act aimed at interference in the internal issue of the Korean nation and an unreasonable logic and sophism ignorant of the essence of the nuclear issue of the Korean peninsula.
Obvious is the stand of the DPRK to successfully hold the Winter Olympics as a national event and fully display the dignity and might of the Korean nation and, therefore, this is supported and welcomed by all the fellow countrymen and the international community.
It is only the U.S. and other outsiders who are to blame for the division of the Korean Peninsula and the tension there that stand against the Korean nation working hard to open up a new chapter for peace on the peninsula by its concerted efforts.
China’s experts and media, that have touted for “peaceful solution” to the Korean peninsula issue whenever an opportunity presented itself, now shun the present positive development of the situation and are arguing for and against while setting the DPRK’s participation in the Winter Olympics against its strategic issue. How can such behavior be interpreted as an act of allegedly “disinterested” neighbors.
This is evidently an act of screwballs feeling dissatisfaction with the north and the south of Korea aspiring after detente and peace, and a mischievous act to reverse and divert the international focus away from the atmosphere for the north-south reconciliation.
It reminds one of a mean fellow looking over the fence of a feast host.
The Winter Olympics has nothing to do with “denuclearization”.
As acknowledged by the world, the DPRK’s possession of nuclear deterrence was a legitimate option for self-defense reflective of the stern historical lesson and the reality in which the DPRK’s sincere efforts for the denuclearization of the whole Korean Peninsula were ignored and the U.S. nuclear threat to the DPRK aimed to destroy its sovereignty and rights to existence and development has daily increased.
At this time, swimming against the atmosphere of peace on the Korean Peninsula, the U.S. is rendering to the extremes the political and military threat and brandishing a fireball after shipping huge aggression forces including all sorts of ultramodern nuclear war weapons to the sky, land and sea, thereby threatening the Winter Olympics and the post-Olympics situation.
If one truly hopes for peace on the Korean Peninsula and regional stability, it is reasonable for one to say what it should do to the trouble-maker U.S.
It is illogical for the Chinese media to absurdly vociferate about “denuclearization”, far from saying what it should do.
So, is an event of “denuclearization” ever on the list of the Winter Olympics?
Call a spade a spade. It is very despicable of those Chinese media to mess with their neighbor’s event, far from offering congratulations to it.
Ignoring the reality and occasion, they are forcibly linking the issue of “denuclearization” to the Olympics, which cannot be interpreted otherwise than an act aimed to spoil others’ feast.
They betrayed the dark intention to distract the international caution focused on them to the DPRK by doggedly standing in the way of creating reconciliation atmosphere between the north and the south of Korea that would have a positive impact on the world peace and the development of the regional situation.
They are trying to hold the issue of inter-Korean relations on nuclear issue leash and use it as leverage for interference.
They, in the long run, left the international community unpleasant feelings that the “initiative and proactive neighboring diplomacy” only seeks interference in the internal affairs of other countries and nations.
Recently they slandered the DPRK’s measure for self-defense as “narrow-minded interpretation of outside and self-justified action in the nuclear and missile issue”. They also belittled the military capabilities of the DPRK, quoting a “conclusion drawn after inspecting from the south side position in Panmunjom”. Now to what extent have they reached.
Some experts and media of China engrossed in admonishing others are now showing the same proclivity as the Trump and Abe groups and the conservative riff-raffs of south Korea marginalized after being isolated and rejected in the world.
Going blind in judging the trend of the times would make one face great disappointment.
Such senseless meddling doesn’t fit the appearance of a “power”.