North Korea Condemns Cheonghae Unit Dispatch as "America's Bullet Sponge, Anti-National Provocation"

"Following Foreign Powers Brings Only Pain and Disaster"

The Cheonghae Unit will be dispatched to the Strait of Hormuz area to conduct independent operations. On the 21st, the Ministry of National Defense announced, "Considering the current situation in the Middle East, our government has decided to temporarily expand the deployment area of the Cheonghae Unit to ensure the safety of our citizens and the freedom of navigation for vessels." The photo shows naval Cheonghae Unit members training on December 13 last year off the coast of Geoje Island, Gyeongnam, simulating a scenario where a ship is hijacked by pirates.

North Korea condemned South Korea's government's decision to dispatch the Cheonghae Unit to the Strait of Hormuz on the 31st, calling it an "act of pro-American submission" and an "anti-national provocation."

North Korea's propaganda outlet for inter-Korean affairs, Uriminzokkiri, stated in an article titled "What Will Follow Such Submission?" that "South Korea's recent dispatch to the Strait of Hormuz is clearly a disgraceful act of pro-American submission, sacrificing South Korea's youth as cannon fodder for America's overseas invasion wars, and an anti-national provocation."

The outlet harshly criticized, "The South Korean authorities are trying to calm the angry public by making absurd excuses such as 'independent dispatch' and 'a decision made considering national interests,' but these are nothing more than sophistries to justify their pro-American submissive disgrace."

Uriminzokkiri also claimed that the South Korean government made the dispatch decision considering the Special Measures Agreement on defense cost-sharing with the United States.

The outlet said, "The South Korean authorities seem to be deluded that by pleasing the United States, regardless of public sentiment, they might reduce the 'defense cost-sharing' a little or ease the pressure they are under, but this is truly foolish and laughable." It added, "The South Korean authorities must clearly understand that following foreign powers will only bring misfortune, suffering, disaster, and death."

Uriminzokkiri emphasized that the background of the current breakdown in inter-Korean relations also lies in the South Korean government's "pro-American submission."

The outlet stated, "Because of South Korea's pro-American submissive policy, inter-Korean relations have reached a crisis and the situation on the Korean Peninsula is worsening further," and argued, "All sectors of South Korean society must rise up to put an end to the history of subservience and submission under American domination and dependence."

Meanwhile, on the 21st, the government decided on a de facto "independent dispatch" by expanding the Cheonghae Unit's operational area to include the Strait of Hormuz.

The Cheonghae Unit's deployment area has been expanded from the Gulf of Aden to the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Gulf (Persian Gulf), and it will carry out missions to protect citizens and vessels under South Korean military command.

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