Minju Joson Tuesday observes in a signed commentary in this regard:

What the United States seeks through "RRW" is to modernize nuclear weapons in a bid to secure an unchallenged edge over its rivals in the field of strategic nuclear forces.

It is an important content of the U.S. strategy for world domination to take an unchallenged position in the nuclear field and establish, on this basis, domination over the world. The U.S. has massively beefed up its nuclear forces since it developed and produced its first A-bombs in the 1940s, pursuant to the nuclear doctrine that "those who have nukes dominate the world."

What matters is that due to the U.S. nuclear policy the world is heading for a nuclear arms race whether it likes or not.

It is clear that the U.S. has not developed nukes just to exhibit them.

Many people of the world began feeling the urgent need to build nuclear forces, greatly angered by the ferocious nature of the U.S. which posed nuclear threat to its hostile states after dropping A-bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This brought an era of nuclear arms race to the world.

The same can be said of the reason why the DPRK had access to nuclear weapons.

The DPRK was compelled to take an option for nuclear development which required huge funds, manpower and a lot of time. This was an inevitable security measure for self-defence taken to cope with the situation where the U.S. singled out the DPRK as a target of the former's preemptive nuclear attack and pursued ceaseless moves to start a nuclear war against it.

Frankly speaking, it was none other than the U.S. that drove the DPRK to nuclear weaponization.

There are now nuclear weapons huge enough to destroy the earth hundreds of times. They are adversely affecting peace and development of humankind.

The U.S. is entirely to blame for this grave situation, concludes the commentary.