that due to be withdrawn from Europe as a result of the CFE negotiations, would be sold to third world countries. In particular, 20 F-18 fighters worth 3.5 billion dollars will be handed over to south Korea. If détente in one continent causes tension in another continent, the détente will be meaningless and world peace and security cannot be expected. This will be another serious challenge to our Conference. Our delegation strongly maintains that all troops reduced should go back to the original States and their equipment should be destroyed or returned to those States. What is needed as a solution for rapid overall disarmament is confidence-building, which is under active discussion today in various international forums, and in regional meetings in particular. At the Asia and Pacific regional meeting on confidence-building held in January in Nepal, urgent regional issues were considered. CD/PV.554 22 (Mr, Han, Democratic People's Republic of Korea) In confidence-building aimed at disarmament, the tendency to indefinitely defer disarmament by dissociating confidence-building from disarmament and making confidence-building a precondition must be resisted. What is important is to strengthen confidence-building through bold disarmament. Especially in the situation prevailing in the Korean peninsula, where peace is not guaranteed by law and where dialogue at all levels and exchanges are restrained by military super-tension, a breakthrough for confidence-building will come about only through the easing of military confrontation. If our proposals for high-level political-military North-South talks, for turning the demilitarized zone along the Military Demarcation Line into a peace zone, for stopping large-scale joint military exercises with foreign countries, and for withdrawing foreign troops and nuclear weapons and reducing armed forces to less than 100,000 troops on either side, had been negotiated and put into implementation, the question of the Korean peninsula would never have remained an international question.
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing international relations, disarmament, and security issues, specifically in the context of the Korean peninsula. It mentions the sale of military equipment, troop reductions, and the need for confidence-building measures to promote disarmament. These themes suggest that the text is more focused on international politics and security than on economic or social development.

**Category**
International relations, Defense