On March 29 the International Relations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives passed the "bill to escalate sanctions with respect to transactions relating to North Korea", the "bill on re-listing the DPRK as a terror-sponsor" and the "resolutions denouncing the ICBM development of north Korea." On March 31 the U.S. Treasury Department announced what it called a list of targets of additional sanctions.

The reckless actions taken by the U.S. Congress and the Treasury Department against the backdrop of the U.S.-led joint military drills for aggression are driving the tense situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of a war.

The adoption of the anti-DPRK sanctions resolutions sponsored by the die-hard conservative forces of the U.S. steeped in inveterate repugnance and hostility toward the DPRK only hardens the retaliatory will of the army and people of the DPRK to settle accounts with the U.S. to the end.

The U.S. is desperately persisting in the sanctions racket as the DPRK has not yielded to its arbitrary and high-handed practices under the uplifted the banner of socialism.

Despite the unheard-of harsh sanctions of the U.S. that have lasted for more than half a century, the DPRK emerged a nuclear power in the East, registering eye-opening successes in the economic construction and improvement of the standard of the people's living.

The DPRK will as ever demonstrate its might by doing everything it wants to do and building a socialist power envied by the world by dint of self-reliance and self-development.

If the U.S. had calculated it could deprive the DPRK of its nuclear deterrent representing the life of the Korean nation and serving as a treasure of the country through such sanctions racket, it would be the wildest dream.

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

Now that the U.S. fails to face up to the trend of times but incites confrontation to strangle the DPRK, the DPRK is left with option but to take necessary counteraction against it.

The world will soon witness what eventful steps the DPRK will take to frustrate the hideous and reckless sanctions racket.