Full translation of Combat Duty Posture No. 1 statement of the Korean People's Army Supreme Command as first broadcast at 0630 UTC by Korean Central Broadcasting Station - Pyongyang:


We will show our army and people's firm resolve to respond with actual
military action.

Statement by the Korean People's Army [KPA] Supreme Command:

Despite repeated warnings by our army and people, the United States'
nuclear war commotion aimed at us is taking place at an actual stage beyond
the danger limit.

Even on 25 March, the United States suddenly thrust a formation of B-52
nuclear strategic bombers deployed at the Andersen Air Force Base on the
island of Guam into the sky over the South Korean region at around 8:00 in
the morning [24 March]. After around 11:50 [25 March], they brazenly publicized this as if to make it known while carrying out an intensive actual-fighting nuclear strike exercise simulating targets deep inside the northern part of the Republic.

At the same time, they even had South Korea's conservative media bring up the Osama Bin Laden murder operation process in 2010. They imposingly advertised that the ROK-US Combined Forces' operational plans that they have drafted dare to include a vicious operational plan to harm our supreme dignity with murder strike means and methods possessed by the US imperialist aggressors' army and the South Korean puppet army.

Even at this moment -- while saying that there are no military or technical
obstacles to the operation to harm our supreme dignity and thoroughly
examining all our relevant actions -- they talked nonsense about how now is the time to put forth an offensive North Korean policy instead of a defensive North Korean policy.

Once again forcefully linking the warship Cheonan sinking incident to us and shifting the blame for the Yeonpyeongdo shelling like traitor Lee Myung-bak did, the incumbent authorities rashly shouted about having plans to deal a precision strike with missiles against statues of the generalissimos that are set up throughout the northern part of the Republic, including in Pyongyang, if a local provocation of the same nature recurs.

While speaking this way, they blasphemously barked of even having drawn up in advance a removal priority list based on a concrete analysis of their locations, sizes, and characteristics.

All these moves clearly show that the anti-Republic hostile acts -- which the United States and all sorts of its servile forces, including South Korean puppets, are committing, taking advantage of our artificial earth satellite launch and underground nuclear test -- have gone beyond the phase of simple threats and blackmail and entered a phase of reckless actions.

The situation is grave because such reckless and insidious maneuvers are timed to coincide with the US-conceived anti-DPRK resolution on sanctions which is being put into action with high intensity through conspiracy and collusion with all sorts of hostile forces.

In connection with the situation now created, the KPA Supreme Command declares at home and abroad our army and people's final decision, as follows:

1. We will demonstrate through actual military action our army and people's firm resolve for a response to defend the country's sovereignty and supreme dignity.

There is a limit to patience.

Our conclusion is as clear as day. We can no longer overlook the menacing reality in which the nation's sovereignty and supreme dignity are being utterly violated, and in which the United States' nuclear threats and blackmail are turning into actual war moves.

The KPA Supreme Command, from this moment on, will place on Combat Duty Posture No. 1 all field artillery groups, which includes strategic rocket units and long-distance artillery units that are set to strike the bases of the US imperialist forces of aggression on the US mainland and in the Pacific forces operational region -- including Hawaii and Guam -- and all enemy targets in South Korea and its surrounding areas.

2. We will also show our army's ultra hard-line resolve in the form of physical actions toward the current puppet authorities of South Korea, who are dancing to the tune of their master's hostile policy toward the DPRK.

If they think that they will be able to strike against originating bases, and to punish reinforcing forces and commanding forces, that would be the most foolish of delusions.

They must clearly keep in mind that at the first, instant strike, everything will be blown away and be burned to ashes with not even a seed remaining.

The firm stand of our army and people is that they cannot allow the previous ruler's nation-selling and treacherous acts -- which drove North-South relations to a catastrophe and blocked the road of peace and prosperity for as long as five years -- to continue without change under the current ruler.

3. We plead with the progressive people of the world, who oppose war and love peace, to turn out as one in the struggle to oppose the strong arm and tyranny of the brigandish United States.

An injustice can never become just, even if the country that commits it is big and has strong military power.

Even UN Security Council resolutions will have already easily gone down the road of injustice if they have lost impartiality and become international crimes that run counter to the era.

Injustice is transitional and an extinguishing flame.

However, justice is eternal and a burning flame.

The KPA Supreme Command appeals to the world's conscience to join in our army and people's struggle to safeguard freedom and justice instead of blindly submitting to the United States' strong arm and tyranny and the resolutions of the UN Security Council which have lost impartiality.

Victory lies in our army and people, who have turned out to safeguard sovereignty, and the progressive people of the world who love justice and peace.

26 March Chuch'e 102

KPA Supreme Command

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