calendar>>June 11. 2009 Juche 98

U.S. Termed Chief Culprit of Nuclear Proliferation

Pyongyang, June 11 (KCNA) -- The United States is wholly to blame for sparking a new nuclear arms race and a thermo-nuclear war as it is taking the lead in developing nuclear weapons. No matter how noisily it is trumpeting about nuclear disarmament, nobody will lend an ear to it.

Rodong Sinmun Thursday observes this in a signed article.

It goes on:

The nuclear disarmament touted by the U.S. has nothing to do with the efforts to prevent a nuclear war and defend the peace and security of the world as it is nothing but hypocrisy and deception.

The basic factor of the nuclear proliferation lies in the U.S. quest of hegemony. The U.S. policy based on the double standards is the main source of upsetting the world nuclear non-proliferation regime and disturbing the international stability.

The U.S. is conniving at the development of nuclear weapons and access to them by the pro-U.S. forces and its allies, backing them and even cooperating with them, prompted by its double standards and biased stand. But it is seriously calling into question the "nuclear issue" of those countries which do not curry favor with it and behaving as if it were a "nuclear judge." This is the height of sarcasm.

The U.S. has undisguisedly pursued a policy of nuclear blackmail, ignoring the requirements of the NPT and the obligations under it, while frantically stepping up the preparations for mounting a preemptive nuclear attack on other countries any moment.

The Korean Peninsula is exposed to the biggest danger of a nuclear war in the world.

The U.S. war maniacs are threatening to mount a preemptive nuclear attack on the DPRK without any advance warning after singling it out as one of the targets of their preemptive nuclear strikes.

It is self-evident that the DPRK can never abandon its nuclear deterrent unless the U.S. nuclear threat is removed.

The U.S. contends that it should have a monopoly of nukes while other countries should not be allowed to have access to them and it is free to brandish its nuclear stick and attempt to mount a preemptive nuclear attack while other countries should not be allowed to have any nuclear deterrent to counter it. What brigandish logic it is.

If the U.S. is truly interested in preventing the spread of nukes, it should cease the modernization of nuclear weapons and take the lead in nuclear disarmament.