The statement said the U.S. has become aloud in saying that the situation gets tense due to the DPRK's access to nuclear weapons and that it was forced to pursue the hostile policy toward the DPRK.

This is a trick to cover up the cause and absurdity of the policy, and a far-fetched assertion distorting history and reality, the statement said, and went on:

The U.S. had pursued the hostile policy toward the DPRK even before the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula spawned.

It has resorted to the hostile policy toward the DPRK to realize its strategy to dominate Asia. It has systematically scrapped the Armistice Agreement and deliberately moved to make ceasefire a permanent one, denying all the peace-oriented proposals offered by the DPRK.

After rounding off operational plans of various forms to mount a preemptive attack on the DPRK, the U.S. has staged large-scale joint military exercises with various codenames every year.

It has not spared investment in operations for anti-DPRK spy activities, ideological and cultural poisoning and disorganization of the DPRK while applying economic sanctions and blockade against it even before the occurrence of the nuclear issue.

Historical facts prove that the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK is not attributable to the DPRK's access to nukes but that the DPRK's possession of nuclear weapons is attributable to the U.S. hostile policy.

Needless to say, the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK has to be withdrawn in order to have the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula settled.