It goes on:

The Korean people, who have lived being exposed to the constant nuclear threat from the U.S., have waited eagerly for realizing the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula at an early date and providing peaceful circumstances.

The denuclearization of the peninsula called for by the DPRK was to ensure the peace and defend the sovereignty and security of the nation.

This was not aimed to put down arms by kneeling down to the U.S. threat to stifle the DPRK and leave to the tender mercy of the U.S. everything of the country including the sovereignty and the right to development.

As a consequence, the DPRK was left with no option but to access necessary deterrent.

The U.S. nuclear blackmail has reached an extreme phase after the DPRK ranked itself among the full-fledged nuclear weapons states.

The U.S. fabricated the "resolution" at the UN Security Council while branding the DPRK's satellite launch for peaceful purpose as a "ballistic missile launch". This was the extension and the height of its hostile policy to the DPRK.

Under the situation where the U.S. has posed constant nuclear threat to the DPRK, the latter was compelled to hold tight the nuclear weapons and bolster the nuclear armed force both in quality and quantity.

It is very just for the WPK to set forth the new strategic line on steadily bolstering the nuclear deterrent for self-defense to cope with the U.S. persistent nuclear blackmail against the DPRK, the article concludes.