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Increased Defence Capability Called for

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 19 (KCNA) -- The U.S. war of aggression against Iraq and the subsequent development afford a serious lesson to the people aspiring after independence and peace. Minju Joson today says this in a signed commentary carried one year after the U.S. start of military invasion against Iraq.
    The commentary continues:
    The Iraqi war was an inevitable product of the U.S. imperialists' aggressive nature and mode of existence peculiar to them.
    It has already been well known to the world that the United States selected Iraq as its target of invasion long ago.
    The U.S. has left no means untried to bring Iraq under its control after singling it out as a stronghold of strategic importance for realizing its strategy of world domination as it is located in the region very favorable to it not only from the military and strategic point of view but from the economic and geographical viewpoint.
    The Iraqi war clearly proved that the UN Charter and international laws can not play any role in deterring the arbitrary and high-handed practices of the U.S.
    Powerful defence capability of one's own is only the best deterrence to check the invasion and war moves openly committed by the U.S. in different parts of the world.
    It is the physiology of the U.S. to become coward before the strong and ferocious before the weak.
    Only when a country reacts to the U.S. imperialists' ceaseless moves for aggression and war with strong defence capability, can it protect its sovereignty and, furthermore, defend global peace and security, it concludes.