The amendment will help the puppet regime more frantically step up the moves for developing nukes while ever more undisguisedly reprocessing spent nuclear fuel and enriching uranium which have been done so far in secrecy with the backing of the U.S.

The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) in its bulletin No. 1092 Wednesday terms this a dangerous criminal move which will escalate tension on the Korean peninsula and spark off nuclear proliferation and nuclear arms race in Northeast Asia.

It goes on:

The U.S. had already concluded the deceptive "atomic energy agreement" with the south Korean regime in the 1950s. Since then it has connived at and patronized the latter's nuclear development under the signboard of "controlling nukes."

Under the "south Korea-U.S. sci-tech agreement", the U.S. has systematically transferred the technologies applicable to the development of nuclear weapons to the puppet regime and has now gone the lengths of enabling it to enrich uranium, reprocess and recycle spent nuclear fuel.

Consequently, the U.S. has fully revealed its true colors as the chief culprit of nuclear proliferation after throwing off the mask it has worn for years to systematically transfer sensitive technologies, manpower and equipment necessary for nuclear development to the puppet regime behind the scene.

It is shameless, indeed, for the U.S. to take issue with someone's nukes and express "concern over nuclear proliferation".

The U.S. and the south Korean puppet regime has now neither justification nor excuse to pull up the DPRK over its nukes nor can they evade their responsibility as the chief culprits of nuclear proliferation and nuclear arms race.

The DPRK will further bolster up its self-defensive nuclear deterrent for defending the dignity of the nation, its sovereignty and global peace and security to cope with the reckless nuclear hysteria of the U.S. and the puppet regime.