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U.S. Arms Build-up Flailed

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

   Pyongyang, June 17 (KCNA) -- The U.S. Department of Defense was reported to have announced that it would spend 900 billion dollars to develop and purchase new type defense equipment in 5 years to come. 335 billion dollars of them is expected to be spent exclusively for the development of new type weapon systems and purchase of new type military equipment.
    Minju Joson Tuesday observes in a signed commentary in this regard:
    The arms build-up stepped up by the U.S. in real earnest clearly proves the dangerous and grave nature of its moves for a war of aggression aimed at dominating the world.
    It is sheer sophism and a trick to hoodwink and mock at the world for the U.S. to paint its criminal arms build-up as a measure for protecting itself and its allies from "fresh threat."
    It is the unchangeable wild ambition and main national policy of the U.S. to maintain a military edge and dominate the world by force, the commentary notes, and goes on;
    This year the U.S. is getting evermore frantic in its moves for arms build-up and in the preparations for a war. It announced a "roadmap for the deployment of the U.S. air force" aimed at forward-deploying ultra-modern high-performance weapons in the air force bases in Hawaii, Guam and Alaska as part of the moves for arms build-up and decided to build the latest type nuclear-powered carrier equipped with a new take-off system which calls for spending a stupendous amount of fund. It also conducted an ICBM test firing and a test of shooting down a satellite.
    The arms build-up and the modernization of arms and equipment stepped up by the U.S. under the pretext of coping with what it called "fresh threat" are aimed at overpowering its rivals and retaining the military supremacy in a bid to carry out its strategy to dominate the world with ease by such military means as a preemptive strike.
    The above-said frantic arms build-up and modernization of armed forces are now upsetting the military equilibrium and creating the danger of a fresh arms race in different parts of the world.
    It is an anachronistic daydream and strategic error for the U.S. to seek to put other countries under its control and dominate the world by force, concludes the commentary.