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DPRK to Take Decisive Countermeasure for Self-Defence

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- The DPRK will increase its nuclear deterrent force in every way and take a decisive countermeasure for self-defence when necessary in order to avert a war and defend peace in the Korean peninsula and the rest of Northeast Asia, declared a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK in an answer given to the question put by KCNA on Mar. 31 as regards the United States' decision to deploy Aegis destroyers in the East Sea of Korea to be combat-ready as part of the moves of the U.S. and Japan to jointly establish the missile defence system. The U.S. projected establishment of a naval missile interceptor system in the East Sea of Korea is the most outright hostile act against the DPRK as it is a system to wage a war against the DPRK and, furthermore, a part of its unchallenged attempt to dominate the Asia-Pacific region by rounding off the ring of military siege and containment against China and Russia, he noted and continued:
    Recently the U.S. announced that it would begin deploying the latest type Aegis destroyer of the U.S. Navy equipped with a missile interceptor system in the East Sea of Korea from September this year under the pretext of the DPRK's "ballistic missile threat" and wind up the establishment of the naval missile interceptor system by the end of 2005.
    Large-scale joint military exercises and the deployment of up-to-date war means for actual battles and other moves of the U.S. and Japan indicate that they are stepping up the preparations for the second Korean war in real earnest behind the scene of dialogue and this has already gone beyond the danger line.
    The U.S. is demanding the DPRK dismantle its nuclear deterrent force without any reward, while putting spurs to the production of new type nuclear weapons, deploying ultra-modern combat equipment in the area around the DPRK and increasing the military threat to it. This is a brigandish demand of an aggressor.