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DPRK now security threat in Far East: US commander
MANILA. May 30 : The commander of US forces in the Pacific said Friday that North Korea is now the chief security threat in the Far East, reports AP.
Admiral Charles Larson. Commander in chief of the US Pacific Command, said the collapse of the Soviet Union removed a restraining factor in geopolitics which has allowed smaller powers to play a destabilizing role.
North Korea, the Korean peninsula, Is my No 1 security concern in the entire region.' lairson told the American Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines.
[.arson, who is tn Manila for an annual security meeting with Philippine officials, said North Korea's admission that it possesses a small amount of plutonium illustrates the potential threat.
Plutonium can be used to make nuclear weapons.
Larson said nuclear weapons in North Korea were a threat to all of East Asia because North Korea has often sold weapons to other countries.
He said the problem was exacerbated because of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which, despite the Cold War. had served as a restraining factor over Ils client stales.
The Soviet-US confrontation. for all its bad things, did have a constraining effect tn some ways." Larson said. "We don’t have that anymore. There arc a lol of independent aetdrs.
Reuter from Panmunjom adds : North Korea on Friday refused to attend a meeting called by the US-led United National Command (UNC) to discuss last week's border gunbattle between South and North Korean soldiers.
UNC delegates waited In vain for North Koreans to attend the 46Olh Military
Armistice Committee meeting | at a conference room in the . border truce village of Pan- ‘ munjom.
North Korea has boycotted the MAC. the military commit- I tec responsible for overseeing the armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean war, since a ' South Korean general was ap- : pointed head of the five-man | UNC delegation 14 months j ago
Seoul said Its troops shot I dead three North Korean sol- . dk-rs last Friday in the south cm section of the heavily form ■ 1 fled demilitarised zone DMZ that separates the two Koreas.
The South has described the infiltration as the worst violation in recent years of the 39-ycar-old armistice accord. The ceasefire agreement has yet lo be replaced with a peace treaty and the two Koreas remain technically al war