By Minju Joson
July 29, 2008

Pyongyang -- The commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces in the Pacific let loose a spate of balderdash in a bid to hold the DPRK chiefly accountable for the military tension, thus falsifying facts.

It is none other than the U.S. that is chiefly to blame for having escalated the military tension on the Korean Peninsula and the rest of the world.

The U.S. has massively deployed modern military hardware in south Korea and in its vicinity and staged various forms of military maneuvers, getting on the nerves of the DPRK, its dialogue partner, and vitiating the atmosphere of dialogue and negotiations.

The U.S. is totally depending upon its military forces in the execution of its foreign policy, thereby seriously disturbing or threatening the world peace and stability.

The DPRK and the U.S. are now facing an important political task to realize the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and put a definite end to the hostile relations that have lasted for several decades. The key to fulfilling this task is for the U.S. to completely roll back its hostile policy towards the DPRK.

The U.S. is now involved in the talks with the DPRK due to the principled and just demand of the DPRK and the international community but it is still keen to threaten and blackmail the DPRK militarily and increase the pressure upon it.

The nuclear armed forces of the DPRK serve as means for self-defence as they are aimed at protecting the security of the country and nation from the moves of the hostile forces to stifle it. The U.S. ever-escalating military threat and moves for aggression would only compel the DPRK to go on with bolstering its powerful deterrent forces for self-defence and it is its right to do so.

The U.S. would be well advised to make a right decision, cogitating about the serious consequences to be entailed by its high-handed military policy. The settlement of the problem depends on the attitude of the U.S.

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