The U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK was always behind all the extreme developments which coiled up the tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

The policy intensified by the Obama administration was little different from the preceding one. This was vividly evidenced by its grave provocations against the sovereignty and dignity of the DPRK.

In June last the U.S. imperialist aggression forces in south Korea staged largest-ever joint live-fire drill in the area south of the Demilitarized Zone in league with the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors, kicking off reckless rackets such as daring aim at the DPRK flag. This is a heinous anti-DPRK act like a war act.

The U.S. denied the DPRK's development of space for peaceful purposes. No sooner had the DPRK announced its plan to launch Kwangmyongsong 3-1 than the U.S. unilaterally announced that it would stop the food provision, quite contrary to its claim that it does not link the humanitarian issue with politics. This resulted in breaching the February 29 DPRK-U.S. agreement.

Fearing the objective confirmation of the peaceful nature of the DPRK's satellite launch, the U.S. is orchestrating hostile acts of encroaching upon the DPRK's just right to launch satellite Kwangmyongsong 3-2, labeling it a long-distance missile launch.

The U.S. left no stone unturned to carry out its foreign policy in a bid to execute its anti-DPRK acts.

The U.S. administration and think-tank cried out for the "logic of threat from north Korea" with an aim to justify the strategy for dominating the Asia-Pacific region. The "third Armitage report" published by the group of experts for supra-partisan diplomacy and security said the U.S. and Japan are exposed to threats from north Korea equipped with nuclear weapons. The U.S. Centre for Strategic and International Studies in its report submitted at the request of the U.S. Defense Department claimed that north Korea is the primary threat to the U.S. in Asia.

The commander-in-chief of the U.S. forces in the Pacific region cried out for getting prepared to ensure security from provocation of north Korea and the deputy commander of the U.S. 8th Army said that the mission to deter threat from Pyongyang is important as never before now that the U.S. forces are shifting their emphasis to the Pacific region.

The U.S. has escalated military pressure and blackmail against the DPRK. This is the main cause of the tensions that ran high on the Korean Peninsula this year. At the beginning of the year the U.S. officially signed the "plan for jointly coping with local provocations" which envisaged the involvement of the south Korean puppet forces and the U.S. forces in Japan and the Pacific in case of the contingency on the peninsula. This plan, part of its new defense strategy, aims to ignite a Korean war.

The U.S. has intensified war maneuvers against the DPRK. They were staged according to OPLAN 5027, a scenario for an overall war on the peninsula, and OPLAN 5029, a scenario for surprise attack operation of the U.S. and the south Korean puppet army in "contingency." They were staged under the simulated conditions of "removal of the weapons of mass destruction", attack operation such as strike at commanding post and "removal of nuclear facilities" through Key Resolve, Foal Eagle and Ulji Focus Guardian joint military exercises.

In June alone the U.S. staged joint exercises in the South Sea of Korea together with Japan and the south Korean puppet army and joint naval exercise in the West Sea of Korea with the puppet army with nuclear carrier George Washington involved.

The U.S. aggravated the situation while crying out for the initiatives for military cooperation to cope with someone's "threat", instigating traitor Lee Myung Bak keen on igniting a war against the DPRK.

Top U.S. military officials often had secret confabs with the south Korean warmongers at which they vociferated about "completion of the plan for joint operation" and the "provision of deterrent forces including a nuclear umbrella".

Clarified in the operational plan of the past war confabs was the mode of war operation that an overall war will be orchestrated by the U.S. and local war by the south Korean puppet army in case a war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula. But the new joint operational plan was amended to the effect that the U.S. and south Korea will jointly cope with the local war.

The U.S. gave the south Korean puppet forces a free rein as regards the use of missiles so that they can put the whole areas of the DPRK in the firing range and strike them. This provided a condition for a preemptive strike at the DPRK, indicating what extent the U.S. reckless war hysteria to egg the south Korean puppet forces on to wage a war against the DPRK has reached.

The U.S. is driven into a tight corner as regards the Korean issue.

A spokesman for the U.S. State Department in a recent press briefing said the DPRK's rocket launch as planned showed that the U.S. policy toward the DPRK failed.

A senior researcher at the U.S. Cato Research Institute referred to the infeasibility and uselessness of the Obama Administration's Korea policy. The U.S. is falling into a pitfall as regards its policy toward north Korea, he noted, adding the Obama Administration's policy toward north Korea is risking the worst result.

Bottom-line is for Washington to change its present strategy in a bold way, he said. It is foolish to call for following in the footsteps of the decades-long policy which produced very useless results, he added.

It is very just when the DPRK decided to bolster up its war deterrent to cope with the worst situation on the Korean Peninsula created by the U.S.

The U.S. had better clearly understand its rival and roll back at once its anachronistic hostile policy toward the DPRK.