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DPRK's Nuclear Force Can Not Be Bargaining Chip: Newspaper
Pyongyang, May 4 (KCNA) -- The DPRK's nuclear force guarantees the nation's dignity and sovereignty. It is the treasure of reunified Korea and a powerful means for ensuring peace. Therefore, this can not be a bargaining chip, says Rodong Sinmun Saturday in a bylined article.

It goes on:

For nearly seven decades after the first manufacture of nuclear weapons in the world, there have been many wars, big or small, in different regions of the world. It was only nuclear weapons states that evaded military aggression.

No aggressor will dare make an attack on a country that is equipped with nuclear weapons of precision strike capabilities no matter wherever their bases might be on earth. The stronger nuclear strike abilities will present greater strength for deterring aggression.

Peace and prosperity as well as the happy life of the Koreans are guaranteed by the powerful nuclear force.

Peace has been preserved on the Korean Peninsula, the most unstable hotspot in the world. It is thanks to the efforts of the DPRK which has bolstered up the deterrent for self-defense in the face of the evermore undisguised war moves for aggression on the part of the U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces.

If the DPRK had not held up the banner of Songun and failed to build the powerful war deterrent, a nuclear war might have broken out on the peninsula long ago.

The U.S. and the puppet regime, afraid of the DPRK's smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear deterrence, are making desperate efforts to remove it at any cost.

The situation goes to clearly prove that the DPRK's nuclear deterrence serves as the first and foremost means for defense to completely contain the U.S. imperialists and the puppet warmongers and ensure the peaceful circumstances and stable conditions for the development and prosperity of the country and the nation.

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