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Big Powers' Moves to Develop New Nuclear and Space Weapons under Fire

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

   Pyongyang, March 27 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Tuesday cites detailed facts to prove that the big powers are stepping up the development of new nuclear and space weapons, raising quite a din about "global peace and security." The news analyst says:
    The British parliament recently approved the government's plan to update nuclear weapons system. According to it, Britain is to allocate 20 billion pounds to the formation of a new fleet of nuclear missile submarines.
    The U.S. is chiefly to blame for sparking off a fresh arms race and drawing the world into it after the end of the Cold War.
    Now it seeks to deploy missile defense systems in some European countries. The U.S. investment in equipment needed for it alone runs into billions of U.S. dollars.
    Other powers, too, are throwing colossal funds into the modernization of nuclear and space weapons. Japan has jumped into the arms race by launching spy satellites and buckling down to the joint development of technology with the U.S. for the MD establishment while modernizing the "Self-Defense Forces."
    The arms race in the international arena upsets the balance of forces among countries and regions and greatly threatens global peace and security.
    The upset of the balance of forces would create the danger of an easy outbreak of a war. The wars in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq after the end of the Cold War were all wars between countries which could not have a balance of forces at all.
    It is the present reality and law that the weaker is conquered and the stronger emerges the victor.
    It is becoming increasingly difficult with the lapse of time to expect a durable global peace and security. The responsibilities for this entirely rest with the U.S. and other Western powers keen on establishing their worldwide domination, pursuant to the policy of strength.
    The reality clearly proves what a just option it is that the DPRK has made major efforts to boost its self-reliant defense capabilities under the banner of Songun.