U.S. urged to behave with decorum
Pyongyang, January 13 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Government's decision to completely withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the International Atomic Energy Agency was a legitimate measure taken to cope with the grave situation where the supreme interests of the state are seriously threatened, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary.
As already known, the DPRK, a non-nuclear state, acceded to the NPT and signed the safeguards agreement with the IAEA mainly for the purpose of removing the U.S. threat of a nuclear war from the DPRK.
The DPRK has been exposed to a constant nuclear threat of the U.S. which has become more undisguised in recent years.
As the United States is keen to bring a nuclear disaster to the Korean nation the DPRK obviously cannot remain a passive onlooker to it.
Under the situation where the NPT and IAEA are being misused for implementing the U.S. policy of stifling the DPRK it can no longer remain bound to them.
A military option is not a monopoly of the United States. If the United States dares challenge the DPRK with a "military punishment", the DPRK will take a thousand-fold retaliation against it and root out the very source of aggression on the Korean Peninsula.
The U.S. imperialists should drop its suicidal option, mindful that they will not escape an ignominious defeat in the DPRK-U.S. confrontation.
