On Nov. 1, the United States conducted the test-fire of ICBM Minuteman 3 at the Vandenberg space force base, in the presence of a puppet south Korean military delegation.

The launch came to failure, but the test-fire, resumed in seven years with the participation of puppet south Korean military gangsters as part of demonstration of its "extended deterrence commitment", clearly shows who is the target of the U.S. nuclear and strategic weapons.

What should not be overlooked is the fact that the enemies dared to cry out for the redeployment of U.S. tactical nuclear bombs in the Korean peninsula, timed to coincide with a plan on the development of new-type nuclear bomb named B61-13 recently announced by the U.S. Defense Department.

The U.S. nuclear arms buildup is getting intensified amid the ever-escalating large-scale armed conflicts in the European Continent and the Middle East and the unprecedented military confrontation among nuclear weapons states. This cannot be construed otherwise than a dangerous scheme to attain military supremacy with the actual use of nuclear weapons.

The U.S. and puppet south Korean military gangsters' recent and ongoing military moves against the DPRK, including the landing of U.S. nuclear strategic bombers in the puppet region, are extremely provocative and reckless hostile acts that unilaterally escalate the military tension in the Korean peninsula.

The armed forces of the DPRK are keeping themselves fully ready to counter any hostile threat to its sovereignty and security and interests in order to neutralize such attempt outside the territory, while watching the enemy's moves.

The DPRK's military counteraction stand to respond to the nukes in kind is immutable, irrespective of whether the U.S. targets the DPRK with strategic nuclear weapons or deploys tactical nukes.

Now that the nuclear threat by the U.S. and its vassal forces to the DPRK nears a new red line, to steadily bolster up the self-defensive nuclear armed forces on the part of the DPRK is the exercise of its right to self-defense for protecting its security from the hostile forces' threat and a powerful diversionary measure for ensuring peace and security in Northeast Asia and the rest of the world.

The armed forces of the DPRK are filled with the determination to faithfully fulfill their constitutional obligations for defending the national sovereignty and territorial integrity and the rights and interests of the people by responding to the reckless military provocations of war maniacs with prompt, overwhelming and decisive counteraction.

The DPRK will as ever continue its military action to bolster up the deterrence and ensure the strategic security in the Korean peninsula and the region.