Rodong Sinmun Friday says this in a signed article.

It goes on:

The U.S. declared the "anti-terror war" under the pretext of the Sept. 11 incident and put Afghanistan under its occupation. It launched military invasion against Iraq on the basis of the false information about "its access to WMDs." It is branding Iran's nuclear activities for peaceful purposes as "the development of nukes" in a bid to internationalize it.

The U.S. imperialists are attaching great importance to the Korean Peninsula in carrying out their strategy for world domination, in particular, while speeding up the expansion of NATO to the east and deployment of the missile defense system in Eastern Europe.

Arms buildup is one of the major levers of the U.S. for carrying out its strategy for world domination.

The U.S. is resorting to high-handed military actions to realize the above-said strategy. Its arms expansion is aimed to plug its rivals into the arms race and thus get them worn down.

The U.S. is sparking off an arms race in the Asia-Pacific region, too. It keeps selling weapons to Taiwan. The U.S. is maintaining close military nexus with such allied forces as Japan and south Korea in a bid to tighten the U.S.-Japan-south Korea triangular military alliance and consolidate the sphere of its military domination over the Asia-Pacific region.

The U.S. stepped-up arms buildup, a factor of making the regional situation complicated, clearly indicates that the U.S. loud-mouthed "changes" are nothing but hypocrisy.