He, expressing "concern" over the DPRK's nuclear development and China's efforts to bulk up military muscle, asserted the need for the long-term presence of the U.S. forces in East Asia and the establishment of the missile defense system there.

This is sheer sophism aimed to misrepresent the root cause of military tensions constantly running high in East Asia and carry out the U.S. strategy for military invasion and domination over the region.

The U.S. is wholly to blame for the military tensions escalating in East Asia and for the acts that compelled the DPRK to have access to nuclear deterrent in view of historical facts.

The U.S. has kept its forces in south Korea and Japan ever since the end of World War II. It knocked into shape military alliances for aggression and has ceaselessly beefed up armed forces and staged war exercises, posing military threats to countries in East Asia and increasing tensions there to an extreme pitch.

There is no other military alliance than the U.S.-led one in the East Asian region and there are no military threats except the ones posed by the U.S. and its military alliance in the region.

Had the U.S. not kept its troops in the region for military aggression and domination nor pursued unreasonable Cold War-oriented policy, the tensions in the region would have not run as high as now and the DPRK would not have had access to nuclear weapons.

The U.S. anachronistic Cold War-oriented policy remains unchanged even in the new century, turning the Korean Peninsula into the most unstable region in the world.

The U.S. is the chief culprit escalating military threats and tensions to East Asia.

It is preposterous for the U.S. to talk about "threats" from someone though it threw the East Asian region into confusion after making its way to it as an uninvited guest.

The basic orientation of the foreign policy of the U.S. is to strengthen its domination over the region in the 21st century which it is advertising as the century of Asia-Pacific.

The new U.S. administration has professed "changes" but nothing has changed in its foreign policy for domination, in fact.

The hue and cry over "concern" and "threats" raised by the assistant secretary of Defense this time is aimed to shift the responsibility for disturbing peace and stability of East Asia on to others and invariably maintain and expand the military domination over the region behind the scene.

It is clearly proved by his assertion of the "need" to forward deploy the U.S. troops in the region including Okinawa and establish MD and keep nuclear forces there.

All developments go to prove that the U.S. has become all the more undisguised in its moves to carry out its Asia-Pacific strategy for aggression with south Korea and Japan, military strongholds, as bases under the signboard of "changes".

It is quite logical and right option prompted by the prevailing grave situation for the DPRK to steadily bolster up the war deterrent including nuclear weapons for self-defence.