一 | Beijing, Oct 12 (UNI) The Chinese military is allegedly benchmarking the practices used in current hostilities in Europe to develop a strategy of "hybrid war" against Taiwan, Chen Ming-tong, Director-General of the Taiwanese National Security Bureau, said on Wednesday.
"This year, the army of Communist China, borrowing the experience of military operation in Europe, started to develop a hybrid war against Taiwan and boosted its military training," Chen told the local parliament.
The Taiwanese official also said that China continued to send its aircraft and vessels to the Taiwanese air defense identification zone and carried out "other provocations" after conducting large-scale military exercises in early August.
Chen added that Beijing's "threatening" actions, which include the attempts to change status quo in the Taiwan Strait, "jeopardize peace and stability" in the Asia-Pacific region.
In late August, the Taiwanese military fired on a Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) drone that approached the Kinmen Islands. This was the first time that an actual shot was fired instead of warnings.
The situation around Taiwan escalated after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the island in early August. Beijing condemned Pelosi's trip, which it regarded as a gesture of support for separatism, and launched large-scale military exercises in the vicinity of the island. Despite this fact, several countries, including France, the United States, Japan and others, have sent their delegations to the island since then, further increasing tensions in the Taiwan Strait.
Taiwan has been governed independently from mainland China since 1949. Beijing views the island as its province, while Taiwan — a territory with its own elected government — maintains that it is an autonomous country but stops short of declaring independence. Beijing opposes any official contacts of foreign states with Taipei and considers Chinese sovereignty over the island indisputable.
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二 | Seoul, Oct 12 (UNI) South Korea's ruling party leader Chung Jin-suk on Wednesday called for scrapping a 1991 inter-Korean declaration on denuclearization and a military tension reduction deal with North Korea in the event Pyongyang carrying out its seventh nuclear test.
The appeal came two days after the North said it carried out military drills involving units operating "tactical nukes," including simulating nuclear missile strikes on South Korean airports and firing a nuclear-capable missile from under a reservoir, Yonhap news agency reported.
Chung, however, rejected views that he is calling for a redeployment of tactical nuclear weapons to South Korea, saying the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty should not be taken lightly.
"Kim Jong-un unveiled the North's tactical nuclear operation unit on Oct. 10, the anniversary of the Workers' Party, saying that its targets are the airports and ports of the Republic of Korea," Chung of the ruling People Power Party said in a Facebook post.
"Nuclear bombs can fall over our heads at any time," he said.
Chung said the 1991 denuclearization declaration has been made "a piece of wastepaper by North Korea." Under the declaration, the two Koreas committed not to "test, manufacture, produce, receive, possess, store, deploy or use nuclear weapons."
"Should North Korea go ahead with its seventh nuclear test, not only the Sept. 19 inter-Korean military agreement signed during the Moon Jae-in administration but also the 1991 Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula should be scrapped," Chung said.
For the past 30 years since the declaration, the North has stocked up on plutonium- and uranium-based nuclear weapons and now even possesses intercontinental ballistic missiles, Chung said, adding that the North has become a "nuclear weapons department store."
South Korea should not bind its own hands and feet under the denuclearization deal, he said.
"The time has come to make a decision," Chung said.
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