In this regard, Dr. Kim Ryo Suk of Kim Il Sung University told KCNA that historically, the U.S. had rendered the situation in the Korean Peninsula strained through ceaseless provocations.

The scholar said:

With its long scheme to put the Korean Peninsula under its control and advance into the continent, the U.S. occupied south Korea and had got hell-bent on the anti-DPRK war exercises and military provocations before igniting the Korean War on June 25, 1950.

Though it suffered a crushing defeat in the war, the U.S. continued to commit deliberate provocations against the DPRK in a bid to realize its strategy for world supremacy at any cost, such as spy ship Pueblo incident in January 1968, large-sized spy plane EC-121 incident in April 1969 and Panmunjom incident in August 1976.

During the Bush administration, the U.S. unilaterally scrapped the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework, an agreement for the settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, and listed the DPRK as a target of preemptive nuclear attack in its "nuclear posture review".

The incumbent chief executive of the U.S. advocated "change" in its DPRK policy before his assumption of office, but he has escalated provocations against the DPRK by frequently staging various forms of joint military exercises with huge armed forces involved.

With its gangster-like assertion that the DPRK should not launch satellites for peaceful purposes, the U.S. kicked off large-scale war exercises and cooked up another "resolution on sanctions" against the DPRK, again driving the situation to the brink of war.

The U.S. and its followers are now kicking up a "human rights" racket, unable to realize their scheme for stifling the DPRK by force.

All the facts go to prove that the U.S. never wants peace on the Korean Peninsula but shows much interest only in aggravating the tension.

It is the U.S. intention to contain those countries surrounding the peninsula by keeping hold on it as a strongpoint and justify the military reinforcement aimed to dominate the Asia-Pacific region.

The U.S. had better make a switchover in its DPRK policy, mindful that the further it intensifies provocations against the DPRK, the stronger the DPRK's war deterrence grows to frustrate them.