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DPRK Stand to Increase Nuclear Deterrent Force Remains Unchanged

KCNA

    Pyongyang, December 18 (KCNA) -- The DPRK's stand to beef up its nuclear deterrent force will remain unchanged no matter what others may say as long as the United States keeps pursuing a policy to threaten and stifle the DPRK with nukes while turning down its proposal for simultaneous package solution to the nuclear issue, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary. It goes on:
    The U.S. indiscriminately used weapons of mass destruction including depleted uranium shells and has opted for developing smaller nukes, describing them as conventional weapons. Under this situation the DPRK is left with no option but to cope with this military threat with a military deterrent force.
    The nuclear deterrent force is a decisive means for coping with the U.S. threat of war.
    The U.S. used a huge amount of depleted uranium shells, a type of nuclear weapon, when attacking Iraq, a country with no strategic forces and with very weak military capacity in terms of latest weaponry. It is self-evident that it will use nuclear weapons of higher performance when it invades the DPRK, a country with strong military power. As a matter of fact, the U.S. attempted to use nuclear weapons during the last Korean war and whenever shocking military incidents occurred in the postwar period. During his south Korean junket in November last U.S. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld openly declared that it would use nuclear weapons in case of "emergency" on the Korean peninsula. This proves that the U.S. is increasing threat to the DPRK with nukes as the days go by while watching for a chance to mount a preemptive nuclear attack on it, after officially listing it as a target of nuclear attack. This situation compels the DPRK to keep and steadily increase its nuclear deterrent force.
    But for the U.S. threat to use nukes against the DPRK and its policy to stifle Pyongyang the DPRK would not have troubled itself and exerted so much effort to build up a nuclear deterrent force. It is none other than the U.S. which compelled the DPRK to build up the nuclear deterrent force.