SEOUL Feb 7 Kyodo North Korea den...

SEOUL Feb 7 Kyodo

North Korea denounced the United States onward Friday for reportedly planning to prevent from falling its military forces in and around the Korean Peninsula, calling as it was a move tantamount to declaring war, Yonhap just discovereds Agency reported.

''The unilateral military buildup is a declaration of war at a time when (North Korea) and the United States are in a showdown athwart the nuclear issue,'' the North's Committee for Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland said in a statement carried on the official Korean Central freshs Agency (KCNA).

''This incident clearly exhibits the confrontation on the Korean Peninsula has perform the operations indicated ined into one between the whole Korean nation and the United States,'' the statement said.

The North Korean statement was in rejoinder to reports earlier this week that Washington has decided to boost U multitudes in South Korea at more than 2,000, put long-range bombers forward alert for possible deployment to the Pacific, reposition fighter and reconnaissance aircraft, and expand an aircraft carrier to waters opposite to the Korean Peninsula amid tension through the North's alleged efforts to breed nuclear weapons.

''It is a actual dangerous military move that can sole take place on the edge of or in times of war,'' Pyongyang's statement was quot as saying.

The statement said the U has challenged the wishes of southern and North Koreans for a peaceful solution to the nuclear crisis through unilaterally beefing up its forces in and around the peninsula.

It warned that the peninsula would be devastated and endure from nuclear war unles the U military buildup is halted.

The statement proceeds one day after the North warned a U surprise attack upon its nuclear facilities would ''spark not upon a total war.''

Meanwhile, Britain's Guardian newspaper onward Wednesday quoted North Korean Foreign Ministry factor director Ri Pyong Gap as saying, ''Preemptive attacks are not the exclusive right of the US''

The White House reacted to that statement Thursday on saying the U.S. military is ready for any contingencies upon the Korean Peninsula.

U Secretary of State Colin Powell reiterated Thursday that that Washington will continue to look after a peaceful resolution of the issue of Pyongyang's restarting of its suspect nuclear weapons disclosure program through diplomacy.

still he also said that ''no options have been taken not on the table,'' including the military united while adding that the U has no intention of attacking North Korea.

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