Recalling that Obama committed himself to improving relations with "the countries on bad terms" with the U.S. through dialogue and negotiations during the presidential election campaign, the letter noted that they were very disappointed later by his north Korea policy called "strategic patience." It urged Obama to fulfill his commitment by rolling back his "strategic patience policy" which calls for increasing the possibility of a war on the Korean peninsula and conclude a peace treaty to mend the relations with the DPRK.

This can be viewed as a just demand reflecting the stark reality.

Now that the "strategic patience policy" enforced by the Obama administration toward the DPRK has already gone bankrupt, the policy is being branded as a "strategically failed policy" even in the U.S.

Until when will Obama waste time with his patience policy? There is no enough time. -- this was a caution given by the Koreans in the U.S. in their open letter.

As already known, Obama openly cried out for "collapse of north Korea" at the beginning of the year. One cannot but ask how the guy styling himself president of a "big power" can unhesitatingly talk such nonsense.

He might have talked such rubbish, being stupefied and bereft of reason in face of the single-minded unity of the DPRK.

The open letter referred to the fact that no force can browbeat the DPRK where all the service personnel and people are firmly united.

It noted:

"There is another factor called the Juche idea that contributes to the unity of the north. It is the dominating philosophy whereby the people in the north regard their society as an organic body. In actuality, the Juche idea served as another engine for the government in the north to survive for the past seven decades despite the U.S. hostility toward it."

Why does Obama neither see nor understand the reality of the DPRK where all the service personnel and people achieved the single-minded unity rare to be seen in the world and are dashing ahead like the wind despite all difficulties, guided by the Juche idea and the Songun idea although it is being recognized not only by Koreans in the U.S. but by other people in the world.

Disregard of reality and escapism are little short of a suicide.

There is another reality that the U.S. denies.

It is that Washington has persistently refused to officially recognize the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state.

The DPRK has already declared before the world that it would take the road of further bolstering up its nuclear deterrent against the ever more undisguised hostile moves of the enemy, whether the U.S. and others recognize it as a nuclear weapons state or not.

The DPRK has no reason to make haste but the U.S. is pressed for time.

The open letter clarified that persistent provocations against the north making its nukes smaller and developing missile technology might result in throwing even the U.S. mainland into a pitfall of mass destruction.

The commander of the U.S. Strategic Command who controls the U.S. nuclear forces on March 20 said "north Korea might have already succeeded in making nuclear weapons smaller." This is little short of recognizing the DPRK's bolstering of nuclear deterrent in actuality.

It is none other than the Obama administration which is pressed for time.

A Korean adage says that one falls between two stools.

The U.S. should make one of the two options: peace or war.

Time is on the side of the DPRK just as victory is always in store for it.

The Obama administration should bear this in mind and stop at once the DPRK-targeted joint military drills, to begin with, and terminate all its hostile acts against the DPRK.