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DPRK's determination to strongly react to U.S. hard-line measure reiterated

KCNA

    Pyongyang, June 18 (KCNA) -- Now that the U.S. is making preparations for a military attack on the DPRK under the signboard of "dialogue", the latter is left with no option but to implement all necessary measures it has already declared, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary.
    It goes on:
    The U.S. insistence on "multilateral talks" is aimed to lay an international siege to the DPRK under the signboard of "dialogue" and stifle the DPRK by force.
    This is clearly evidenced by the fact that the U.S. asked countries around Korea to pressurize the DPRK and blustered that it would study the proposal for hard-line countermeasures and take the three-phase hard-line measure.
    The U.S. continued pressure on the DPRK to scrap its nuclear weapons program first is intended to contain it with ease after forcing it to disarm itself. The Iraqi war proved that disarmament leads to a war. Therefore, it is quite clear that the DPRK can never accept the U.S. demand that it scrap its nuclear weapons program first.
    The DPRK has already declared that it would regard any sanctions to be applied against it as a declaration of a war. The hard-line measures are not a monopoly of the U.S. If the U.S. takes the three-phase hard-line measure, the DPRK will strongly react to it from its first phase.
    The DPRK has the right to build up a nuclear deterrent force for self-defence, the commentary says, contending that it would exercise all its rights to avert a war, protect the sovereignty and security of the country and the destiny and dignity of the nation.