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U.S.-Japan MD under Fire

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

    Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) -- The United States and Japan are hastening in real earnest the development of the missile defense system (MD) under the pretext of "ballistic missile threat" from the DPRK. Commenting on this, a Minju Joson analyst Tuesday says:
    The U.S. and Japan are reported to have agreed upon staging the first joint test of Aegis-based interceptor missiles for naval deployment ("Standard" SM-3) in the waters off Hawaii in March next year. This indicates that the joint technical researches for missile defense promoted by the U.S. and Japan have made a considerable progress to reach the last stage and its grave adverse effect has begun to be felt in the overall situation of the East Asian region with realistic meaning.
    The U.S. and Japan are tenaciously setting afloat rumors about "north Korean ballistic missile threat" while making quite a noise over "securing a powerful means to counter it." It is not difficult to see through what they seek. Their ultimate goal is, first of all, to isolate and stifle the DPRK by neutralizing its self-defensive capabilities and gain predominance in strategic offensive weapons by destroying the barely maintained strategic balance in East Asia and eventually grab military supremacy in this region. The DPRK can never tolerate the scheme of the U.S. and Japan to neutralize the self-defensive capabilities of the DPRK, seriously threatening its security, in cahoots with each other, and stage another tragedy of Cold War in East Asia.
    The DPRK will tirelessly increase its war deterrent to defend its security and East Asian peace.