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KCNA on U.S. Much Ado about "Missile Threat" from DPRK

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- The U.S. administration is busy making much ado about the "missile threat" from the DPRK, while speeding up the establishment of the dangerous "missile defence system (MD)". Some days ago, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department said that the U.S. would continue to pursue the strong non-proliferation policy as north Korea's missile proliferation is posing a threat to the world. Earlier, the director of the Missile Defence Agency of Pentagon disclosed that the interceptor missiles to be deployed in Alaska before September are aimed to protect the U.S. mainland from north Korea's missiles.
    Many years have passed since the U.S. began raising a hue and cry over the "missile threat" from the DPRK but it has, in fact, never threatened anyone.
    On the contrary, MD is touching off a serious concern of the international community as it is a dangerous hegemonic plan to upset the global strategic stability and spark a fresh arms race.
    The U.S., however, has persistently floated the "missile threat," which can convince nobody. It is aimed to mislead the world public opinion in a bid to serve its sinister political purpose of tightening the economic sanctions against the DPRK and isolating and stifling it.
    This is clearly evidenced by the fact that the U.S. in collusion with Japan is pushing forward MD in Northeast Asia and accelerating the redeployment of the U.S. forces in south Korea and arms buildup under the pretext of the "missile threat".
    The U.S. publicly let the international community know that it would seek a peaceful and diplomatic solution to the issues related to the bilateral relations including the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. but has shown no will to make a switchover in its hostile policy toward the DPRK, the key issue in settling those issues.
    This is clear from the fact that the Bush administration has not yet rolled back its unreasonable policy toward the DPRK, the policy of keeping it on the lists of an "axis of evil" and "terrorism sponsors", and the U.S. high-ranking authorities including the president, vice-president and defense secretary have justified their war policy, frequently expressing undisguised hostility toward it.
    On May 12, Rumsfeld at a Congressional hearing hinted at the U.S. will to develop nukes capable of destroying underground facilities, while pulling up the DPRK. This is little short of the U.S. reiteration of its hostile policy toward the DPRK and its defence forces and an attempt to launch a "preemptive attack" upon it.
    Both the DPRK and the U.S. are technically at war. Yet the latter has persistently maintained the hostile policy toward the former and become ever more undisguised in the moves to isolate and stifle it and launch a military attack upon it, instead of making honest efforts for the improvement of the bilateral relations.
    It is the legitimate right of the DPRK, a sovereign state, to take self-defensive countermeasures against these moves.