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U.S. Much Ado about "Threat from North Korea" Refuted

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- Laporte, commander of the U.S. Armed Forces in South Korea, at a recent discussion on the defense budget of the Armed Services Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives asserted that the threat of missile attack from north Korea or its danger will remain even after the transfer of armed forces in south Korea to the areas south of the River Han as this threat is posed to the whole of the Korean peninsula. Minju Joson today says this in a signed commentary. It goes on:
    As far as the DPRK's missiles are concerned, they are not for threatening or attacking others but for protecting the national sovereignty and dignity from enemy invasion and serves as a deterrent force for frustrating the reckless moves of aggressors to provoke a war.
    The DPRK has never posed any missile threat to anybody. It has never threatened the United States with missiles nor browbeaten south Korea.
    The target of the DPRK's deterrence with missiles is only those foreign forces which infringe upon its national sovereignty and dignity. It is an inviolable legitimate right of a sovereign state to have missiles for national defence.
    It is not the DPRK but the United States that is creating a missile threat and increasing the danger of war on the Korean peninsula.
    The United States should stop fooling the public at home and abroad with the fiction of "nuclear threat from north Korea" whose hypocritical and deceptive nature has already brought to light but withdraw from south Korea with its armed forces, the main source of aggression and war.
    The People's Army and people of the DPRK will further increase the defence capability for self-defence in view of all sorts of reckless moves of the U.S. to start a new war in Korea. Should the aggressors ignite a war, they will react to it with a decisive counter-attack.