calendar>>June 23. 2009 Juche 98

U.S. Can Never Evade Blame for Present Crisis on Korean Peninsula

Pyongyang, June 23 (KCNA) -- It is not the DPRK but the U.S. that poses a military threat and it is none other than the U.S. that works hard to provoke a war on the Korean Peninsula. With no rhetoric can the U.S. deny these facts or evade the responsibility for having driven the situation on the peninsula to the present serious crisis.

Rodong Sinmun Tuesday observes this in a signed article.

It cites facts to prove that the U.S. has strained the situation in systematic violation of the Korean Armistice Agreement and perpetrated lots of big and small military provocations against the DPRK.

The DPRK has taken measures to bolster up its war deterrent to protect socialism from the U.S. moves to ignite a new war and it, therefore, serves as a just and powerful weapon for safeguarding the country and a shield for ensuring peace, the article notes, and says:

The U.S., taking issue with these measures, instigated the UNSC to adopt a "resolution on sanctions" against the DPRK. Lurking behind this is a sinister intention to launch a war of aggression against the DPRK on an open and legitimate basis under the name of the UN and swallow up the whole of Korea and then bring its military boundary in Northeast Asia close to China and Russia.

It is a mode of independent counteraction for the DPRK to counter those with rifles with artillery pieces and those who brigandish a nuclear stick with powerful nuclear deterrent.

It is the only way for the DPRK to survive to fight a bloody battle against the enemy and win victory. It is ridiculous and wicked for the U.S. to pass the buck for the present grave crisis on the Korean Peninsula to the DPRK.

The DPRK will decisively counter the U.S. imperialists' hostile acts against it by dint of Songun. It is little short of committing a suicide for the U.S. to push the situation on the peninsula to the worst crisis.