Text Fwd: [Translation] The SPARK, “Discussion on the TTX will be retrogressive to the non-nuclearization of the Korean peninsula”

* The below is the arbitrary translation of the Tongil News article(클릭) * 확장억제정책위원회 첫 본회의 개최에 대한 평통사의 입장(클릭) The SPARK, “Discussion on the TTX will be retrogressive to the non-nuclearization of the Korean peninsula” The Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea stated its opposition on the ‘TTX’ practice measure (ROK-US application exercise on the extended deterrence measure) that would be discussed in the 28th Security Proliferation Initiative (SPI) that would be held in Hawai’I from March 28 for two days. In the SPI meeting this time, the ‘extended deterrence committee’ meeting will be first held and concrete agreement on the TTX practice measures will be processed. The SPARK statement on March 28, 2011 reads that “Knowing the United States’ active will to make South Korea joint the United States MD, there is a high possibility that the main contents of the TTX will be the Missile Defense exercise between the ROK and US or among the ROK-US-Japan.” The SPARK claimed that “It means that the matter of the ROK-US MD would be not just simple cooperation but be leveled-up to that of joint exercise.” It also reads that, “In the sense that the US MD is the method for pre-emptive nuclear attack, South Korean participation into the US MD and combined exercise are dangerous that intensify the nuclear war danger in the Korean peninsula,” and states that, “That would bring the strengthening of nuclear arming by North Korea and China and would provoke nuclear arms race in the North East Asia. That would be retrogressive to the non-nuclearization of the Korean peninsula and would make remote the peace agreement conclusion that is connected to the former.” The SPARK saying that, “The South Korean joining of the US MD and combined exercise do more than harm than good because it would bring nuclear war and nuclear arms cost competition therefore would seriously threaten the peace in the Korean peninsula & North East Asia; deepen South Korean military subjugation into the United States; and hand over tremendous financial burden to her people,” demanded that “We demand to immediately stop the related negotiation, resolutely opposing ROK’s dangerous and unnecessary participation of the US MD, and the extended deterrence committee meeting in which the TTX practice measure would be discussed.”