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True Colors of U.S. as Arch Nuclear Criminal Disclosed

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Thursday carries a lengthy signed article laying bare the true colors of the U.S. imperialist aggressors as the arch nuclear criminal in the world. The article says:
    The real nature of the U.S. as the world's arch nuclear criminal found a vivid expression in the fact that it singled out a preemptive nuclear attack as its basic military strategy for world domination after the Sept. 11 incident and has since contemplated the use of nukes as conventional weapons, regarding all other countries of the world as targets of its nuclear attack.
    The DPRK is the main target of the U.S. strategy of preemptive attack, its strategy of preemptive nuclear attack.
    As the U.S. imperialists had suffered a shameful defeat in the last Korean war, they have worked hard to stifle the DPRK by use of nukes. To this end, they have shipped at least 1,000 nuclear weapons of different types into south Korea, turning it into the biggest nuclear outpost in the Far East and incessantly increasing the nuclear threat to the DPRK. The U.S. is, therefore, chiefly to blame for having spurned the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula.
    The U.S. imperialists have staged ceaseless nuclear war exercises targeted against the DPRK with huge nuclear strike means involved, openly threatening to use them in case of "emergency" on the Korean Peninsula. This has increased the danger of a nuclear war on the peninsula.
    The U.S.-south Korea joint military exercises, a combination of "RSOI" and "Foal Eagle," staged last March in south Korea, were reckless large-scale nuclear war exercises for a preemptive nuclear strike at the DPRK.
    It is self-evident that the DPRK can not remain a mere onlooker given the fact that the U.S. is persistently pursuing its policy to stifle the DPRK with nukes. It was the U.S. that compelled the DPRK to have access to nuclear weapons and Washington is chiefly to blame for standing in the way of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. The DPRK's possession of nuclear weapons is an exercise of its legitimate right to self-defence and a measure for just defence as it is aimed to avert a war and protect its ideology and system, freedom and democracy from the U.S. increasing nuclear threat and its attempt at preemptive nuclear attack. It is in full line with the principle of defending national sovereignty and requirements of international law for preventing war and ensuring peace.
    The nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. can find a smooth solution should the U.S. stop uttering such empty words as "it has no intention to invade north Korea" devoid of any guarantee but take such trustworthy measure in practice as rolling back its hostile policy to stifle the DPRK with nukes and making a switchover to a policy of peaceful coexistence with it. Whether the U.S. makes a switchover in its policy toward the DPRK or not is a touchstone showing whether it truly wants the settlement of the nuclear issue between them and the denuclearization of the peninsula or not.
    If the peninsula is to be nuclear-free, it is necessary to clear south Korea and its vicinity of all the U.S. nuclear weapons and its threat of a nuclear war and eliminate all possibilities of south Korea going nuclear.
    This is a focal point and the master key to denuclearizing the peninsula.
    The U.S. is loudmouthed about "non-proliferation of nuclear weapons" but it is, in fact, chiefly accountable for fostering the nuclear proliferation.
    Proceeding from its biased stand, the U.S. has connived at, encouraged and cooperated with those forces toeing its line and its allies in the development and possession of nukes. But it has pulled up those countries that incurred its displeasure over their "nuclear issues" and kicked up a noisy racket of pressure in a bid to internationalize those issues.
    If any alliance with the U.S. is used as standards by which to handle the nuclear issue, then the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty would be invalid. As a matter of fact, the double standards applied by the U.S. in handling the nuclear issue are turning the NPT into an irrelevant dead document.
    What merits a particularly serious attention is that the start of a global thermo-nuclear war by the U.S. is no longer an assumption but may be a reality.
    The internal and external situation of the U.S. is not good. The U.S. economy is in the grip of a crisis due to the increasing burden of military spending and the escalating "anti-terrorism war". Its financial and trade deficits are swelling faster than ever before and the bankruptcy of enterprises and the depression of production are going from bad to worse.
    The American society is threatened with the nightmare of terrorism and horror and pervaded with an atmosphere of internal division. The U.S. stands more isolated internationally for its high-handed practices and unilateralism. It is seeking a way out of this serious crisis in igniting a nuclear war.
    In the past the U.S. nuclear attack was targeted against one or two cities of a country but now the world has, in fact, become the target of the nuclear war to be provoked by the U.S. Herein lies the great danger of its strategy of preemptive nuclear attack.