Pyongyang, August 6 (KCNA) -- Scrambles are getting more serious over the North Pole abundant in resources.

Those countries around the Arctic Ocean are busy gaining dominium over the continental shelf.

With biggest interest in the North Pole, Russia has long made preparations to cope with all possible circumstances.

It announced that "North Pole", a multi-purpose space system for constantly monitoring the areas of the North Pole, would be deployed in 2014, and declared the foundation of the "North Pole unit" consisting of two brigades.

Denmark and Canada have resisted such movement of Russia, insisting that the seabed of the Arctic Ocean is geologically linked with their coasts.

The defense minister of Canada announced a plan to stage large-scale military exercises in the pole in August, stating that they are aimed to strengthen its military presence in this region.

Besides, countries which do not belong to the coast of the Arctic Ocean are watching for a chance to get benefits in the scrambles for natural resources.

British Petroleum Co. agreed to open the strategic alliance for developing the North Pole with the Rosnefti Company of Russia.

Meanwhile, Secretary of the U.S. State Department Hillary, at a ministerial meeting of the five states on the coast of the Arctic Ocean made up of the U.S., Russia, Canada, Demark and Norway, took an ambiguous attitude of accusing chairman country Canada. She regarded it as doubtful that other countries beside those with interests in the North Pole were not invited to the meeting.

Foreign news reports said that lurking behind this stand of the U.S. is its ulterior intention to embroil more countries in the scramble for natural resource in the North Pole and thus complicate the situation and catch fish in troubled waters.