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Foreign Ministry Spokesman Blasts U.S. Arms Buildup

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry Saturday gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA as regards the U.S. deployment of Aegis destroyers equipped with an ultra-modern missile interceptor system in the East Sea of Korea: The U.S. officially announced that Aegis destroyers belonging to the U.S. 7th Fleet were deployed in the sea and they began performing their operational duty. This is part of the arms buildup stepped up by it in real earnest in the Korean peninsula.
    The U.S. is justifying this move, asserting that the deployment of the new type naval missile interceptor system is aimed to cope with the ballistic missile threat from the DPRK.
    No matter what a pretext the U.S. may make, it is clear to everybody that this is a very dangerous provocation upsetting stability and strategic balance in Northeast Asia and sparking off an arms race there as the move is aimed to restore the Cold War structure of confrontation in the region.
    The adventurous missile defence system which U.S. seeks to establish with Japan and south Korea involved is designed to contain China and Russia in the end.
    Explicitly speaking, the U.S. seeks to exploit the instability on the Korean peninsula it deliberately caused finding fault with the DPRK, for realizing its strategy to dominate Northeast Asia with ease.
    The U.S. is pursuing a sinister strategic aim to pit people in Northeast Asia against themselves after converting all the Japanese islands into forward bases defending the U.S. in collusion with Japan. This is not only blocking any improvement in the DPRK-Japan ties and the inter-Korean relations but disturbing overall regional stability.
    Korea today is not what it used to be in the past when it fell victim to big powers locked in the scramble for expanding the sphere of their domination.
    The present reality in Northeast Asia irrefutably confirms what a far-sighted measure the DPRK has taken to steadily increase all its means for self-defence including the nuclear deterrent force in face of the U.S. escalated moves to harass peace.
    It is, in fact, thanks to the independent politics of the DPRK and its powerful self-defense capability that peace and security are barely preserved even under the present difficult situation.
    The DPRK will further increase its invincible national defence capacity which it has built, pursuant to the Songun politics.