If there be any difference, the new U.S. administration is mulling adding to its strategy the proposal for ratcheting up the military pressure on the DPRK through the re-deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in south Korea, the commentary observes, and goes on:

If the present U.S. administration pins hope on the toughest military threat and blackmail, sanctions and pressure, far from drawing a serious lesson from its past wrong-guided option and bitter setbacks, such a policy will only entail consequences more unfavorable for the U.S.

If the U.S. policy-makers do not want to repeat the failed DPRK policy, they should shape a policy based on the changed reality.

The strategic position of Juche Korea as a nuclear power in the East has grown stronger in the international arena.

Gone are the days never to return when the U.S. could unilaterally put military pressure on the DPRK.

The U.S. had considered the DPRK, a non-nuclear state, as a target of nuclear blackmail for several decades. Now that it has proudly ranked itself among nuclear weapons states, the DPRK is posing a threat to the U.S. This is an undeniable hard reality.

The U.S. administration had better lend an ear to the serious advice of the international community that its insistence on the senseless hostile policy toward the DPRK would make it suffer bitter setbacks as its predecessor did.

The U.S. politicians have to draw a lesson from the past and make a bold decision to make a switchover in its policy if they have an iota of reason. This is the only way for saving the U.S. from destruction.