Rodong Sinmun Thursday says this in a bylined article.

The WPK's new strategic line is required by the grave situation prevailing on the Korean Peninsula at present and the developing revolution, the article notes, and goes on:

Some permanent member states of the UN Security Council sway the international political order and the bottom line of it is an access to nuclear weapons.

Since the appearance of the first nuclear weapon in the world there have been many wars, but not a single war between nuclear weapons states. There increased the conflicts of interests between them but they never led to military clashes.

If a country is capable of making a precision nuclear strike at any aggressors and their strongholds no matter where they are, they will not dare attack the country. The stronger the nuclear strike capability gets, the more powerful the deterrent grows.

It is an essential requirement of the DPRK to beef up its nuclear force both in quality and quantity now that the U.S., the world's biggest nuclear weapons state, poses a constant nuclear threat to it.

It is the view of the DPRK that it can protect its dignity and sovereignty and win a final victory in the confrontation with the U.S. only when it counters with nukes the aggressor forces coming in attack with nukes.