U.S. smear campaign against DPRK blasted
KCNA
Pyongyang, March 3 (KCNA) -- A few days ago, director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Tenet said at the hearing of the senate armed services committee that North Korea is likely to test-fire "Taephodong No. 2" missile, adding that the missile is more dangerous as North Korea possesses nuclear warheads that can be fixed to it.
And White House spokesman Fleisher claimed that the North Korean missile is almost capable of directly striking the United States.
Meanwhile, the Japan Defense Agency is busy taking "emergency measures" to cope with it, asserting that it is natural for Japan and U.S. to test missiles to intercept ballistic missiles.
In this connection, Rodong Sinmun today says in a signed commentary:
The U.S. much ado about the DPRK's "missile threat" is aimed to accelerate the establishment of its criminal MD under the pretext of the threat.
The U.S. stepped-up MD is, in essence, designed to retain its military edge and put the world under its military control.
The DPRK's missiles make aggressors tremble with fear but serve the people as a powerful shield in the struggle for peace.
It is not United States but the DPRK which is exposed to the missile threat.
The DPRK may be invaded by aggressors overnight unless it increases its self-defence capability to cope with the U.S. military offensive. That is why the DPRK is giving top priority to boosting the defence power though it compels it to cut down its investment in economic construction and the work for improving the standard of the people's living.
The U.S. smear campaign is always accompanied by its military moves for aggression.
The U.S. cynical ploy to justify and accelerate the criminal MD under the pretext of the DPRK's "missile threat" can never cut ice with anyone.
