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Rodong Sinmun on DPRK's Nuclear Deterrent Force

KCNA

Release Date: 10/03/2003

Pyongyang, October 2 (KCNA) -- The United States is raising a hue and cry over the DPRK's nuclear deterrent force, asserting with concern that it poses a big problem. But the DPRK does not intend to threaten others with the nuclear deterrent force. It is a self-defensive means to cope with the U.S. ever more pronounced moves to stifle the DPRK with nukes. Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed commentary.

It goes on:

It is the U.S. which began posing threat with nuclear weapons and it is again the U.S. which has constantly increased the threat.

The U.S. was the first to develop nuclear weapons and it brought an unprecedented nuclear holocaust to humankind.

In the Cold War period the U.S. loudly talked about the nuclear threat but it was, in fact, to justify its nuclear arms buildup and its act of posing a nuclear threat to other countries.

The U.S. still continues posing a nuclear threat. The Bush administration, in particular, designated the DPRK as the first target of its preemptive nuclear attack and is intensifying the offensive to pressurize the DPRK over the nuclear issue.

The U.S. imperialists are stepping up the development of new type nuclear weapons such as nuclear warheads capable of penetrating tunnels in the DPRK.

The DPRK is increasing its nuclear deterrent force to cope with the nuclear threat posed by the U.S. It is none other than the U.S. which compelled the DPRK to build up such force.

Therefore, the U.S. much touted fiction of "nuclear threat" from the DPRK does not stand to reason and the U.S. does not have any face to talk about it.