This was the first meeting of the group held under an agreement reached at a meeting of diplomatic and defense chiefs which took place in Washington in October on creating the above-said group for the purpose of improving the performance of "extended deterrence." It reportedly discussed proposals for military deterrence, diplomatic pressure and escalation of sanctions against the DPRK.

Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun observes that the U.S. and south Korean puppet forces' decision to create such group is not for "putting" south Korea under "nuclear umbrella" but for making a preemptive nuclear strike at the DPRK.

The confab held by the U.S. and the south Korean warmongers on an adventurous military "strategy" goes to prove once again that they are making desperate efforts to invade the DPRK any time, it says, and goes on:

The U.S. escalating nuclear threat and blackmail against the DPRK and war drum beats can never be tolerated as they are a grave encroachment upon the latter's sovereignty.

The army and people of the DPRK will bolster up the nuclear deterrence in every way to cope with the hostile forces' moves for a preemptive nuclear strike as it had already declared.

It is entirely just for the DPRK to bolster up its war deterrence under the present tense situation where a war may break out on the Korean Peninsula any time due to the above-said war moves of the U.S.

Now that the U.S. scenario for making a preemptive nuclear strike at the DPRK's nuclear weapons and missiles has entered the phase of practical implementation, the latter will increase in every way its efforts to disable the former's striking means.