U.S. cannot frighten DPRK
KCNA
Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- The U.S. military attack on Iraq prompts the DPRK to keenly realize once again what a just and reasonable step it took to increase its national defence capability under the uplifted banner of Songun. (Songun means regarding the military affair as the greatest state affair, and strengthening the main agent of the revolution and promoting national defense and socialist construction as a whole with the people's army as the mainstay)
Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed commentary.
It goes on:
The United States is gravely encroaching upon the sovereignty of Iraq for the purpose of removing the present leadership of Iraq in defiance of even the elementary international code of conduct and, furthermore, putting the Mideast region under its control.
The present Iraqi crisis teaches a serious lesson that the imperialists' inspection of weapons in sovereign states leads to disarming, it spills into a war and any concession and compromise with the imperialists allow the sovereignty and interests of countries and nations to be encroached upon and, in the long run, they will fall victim to imperialism.
A nation will survive if its sovereignty is defended and if not, it will no longer exist.
The U.S. increased unreasonable pressure on the DPRK compels it to harden its resolution to do its utmost to defend itself.
The DPRK has no option but to strengthen its own means of just self-defence in every way in order to avert a war on the Korean Peninsula and protect the sovereignty of the country and socialism.
No matter what others may say, the DPRK will never concede its revolutionary principle and interests but make all efforts to defend itself holding rifles more tightly to foil the U.S. escalated moves to stifle it.
The U.S. is seriously mistaken if it thinks it can frighten the DPRK by launching the Iraqi war.
