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KCNA Refutes U.S. and Japan's Assertion about DPRK's "Missile Test"

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, October 12 (KCNA) -- The United States and Japan are asserting that the DPRK has a missile test-fire plan. Officials concerned of the governments and militaries of the two countries and their media raised a hue and cry over a threat from a new type medium-range ballistic missile, saying that north Korean army vehicles, soldiers and missile technicians are massed in the area around the launching base for missile Rodong and there is a sign of possible north Korean fire of a ballistic missile capable of striking the U.S. mainland and Japan proper.
    The test, production and deployment of missiles are an issue pertaining to the legitimate right of the DPRK.
    Therefore, the row kicked up by the U.S. and Japan over the DPRK's missiles can never work on it.
    The test, production and deployment of missiles can never pose any threat to others as they are of self-defensive nature. The U.S. and Japan, however, are vociferous about the dangerous nature of the DPRK's missiles. This is related to their sinister political and military purpose.
    The U.S. has increased its forces' capability to fight a war in Northeast Asia including the Korean peninsula and escalated their moves for military intervention under the pretext of "threat" from the DPRK.
    The U.S. has massively shipped into areas around the DPRK its huge armed forces including nuclear-powered carrier in a bid to put the strategy of preemptive attack on it into practice.
    It is according to this strategy that the U.S. has relocated its ground forces in south Korea and, at the same time, bolstered its naval and air forces there.
    The U.S. is contemplating deploying a new carrier striking group in the Asia-Pacific region. It has already deployed its destroyers equipped with Aegis missile interceptor system in the East Sea of Korea and brought one squadron of air force F-15E to south Korea. All these military moves are part of its madcap arms buildup.
    The U.S. has also shipped latest type tanks, armored vehicles, unmanned reconnaissance planes, Stealth fighter-bombers, missiles and other ultra-modern war means into south Korea according to its arms buildup plan in a bid to step up its preparations to stifle the DPRK by force of arms.
    The U.S. has already worked out a detailed operational plan to fight a Korean war and, on this basis, intends to preempt an attack on the DPRK all of a sudden from the sea and air and on the land after transferring and amassing troops in operational theaters.
    These unprecedentedly reckless military moves on the part of the U.S. compel the army and people of the DPRK to harden their determination and will to exert utmost efforts to increase the defence capacity to defend the sovereignty of the country.
    It is the consistent stand and mode of counteraction of the DPRK to keep itself fully ready for both dialogue and war.
    The DPRK will increase its military deterrent force in every way, now that the U.S. is becoming desperate in its moves to stifle it by force.