The recently escalating tension on the Korean Peninsula is attributable to the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK and its military pressure on the latter, the paper said, and went on:

The DPRK successfully launched a satellite in December 12 last year. But the U.S. prodded the UN Security Council into cooking up an unreasonable "resolution on sanctions" against the DPRK, terming its satellite launch a "long-range missile launch". The DPRK countered it with its third underground nuclear test for self-defence.

Though it was a just step, the U.S. again prodded the UNSC into faking up "a resolution on sanctions" against the DPRK and staged the U.S.-south Korea joint military exercises on the Korean Peninsula with huge forces involved.

U.S. nuclear strike means were involved in the joint military drills. Recently the U.S. and south Korea advanced a "proposal for dialogue" to the DPRK but with preconditions.

The U.S. urged the DPRK to show its will for denuclearization as a precondition for dialogue. The DPRK turned down the U.S. "proposal for dialogue" as it sought a sinister purpose.

It is hard to expect peace on the Korean Peninsula unless the U.S. gives up its hostile policy and nuclear threat to the DPRK.

The DPRK and the U.S. are still technically at war as the 1950-1953 Korean war ended with the conclusion of the armistice agreement, not a peace treaty.

The DPRK has so far called for signing a peace treaty on a number of occasions but it was rejected by the U.S. It has turned its face away from the DPRK's proposal as it required the tension on the Korean Peninsula for carrying out its strategy.

The U.S. has drastically increased forces in and around south Korea under the pretext of "nuclear threat" from the DPRK.

All these facts go to clearly prove who is to blame for the tension on the Korean Peninsula.