KCNA Commentary on Basic Factor to Bolster Nuclear Deterrence

Pyongyang, January 6 (KCNA) -- It was recently disclosed that the U.S. had already worked out a nuclear bombing plan targeting major objects and regions of the former socialist countries including major cities of the DPRK back in the mid-1950s. According to a data declassified by the U.S. National Archives, far back in 1956 the U.S. had already set 4 500 objects and regions of the former socialist countries with dense population and where major objects are situated including the former Soviet Union and Democratic Germany as well as more than 10 regions in the DPRK such as Pyongyang, Nampho, Wonsan, Sinuiju, Chongjin, Uiju and Pukchang as targets of nuclear attack and had been hell-bent on producing nuclear weapons for putting the plan into practice. This is a proof showing again the U.S. criminal scenario for realizing its ambition for world domination. The U.S. is a hideous nuclear criminal nation that has constantly posed nuclear blackmail for more than 70 years, seriously endangering mankind. Only in October last year, it carried out the performance test of B61-12, new-type nuclear bomb, for the purpose of replacing the old nuclear bombs that had been deployed in Europe with modern ones. The U.S. nuclear threats aimed at world supremacy have culminated in its nuclear blackmail against the DPRK. It is quite natural that the DPRK had an access to nuclear weapons and codified it and has steadily bolstered them under the new line of simultaneously pushing forward economic construction and the building of nuclear force in order to repel the U.S. nuclear blackmail. The U.S. increased nuclear threats are a basic factor that compelled the DPRK into bolstering a nuclear deterrence. The U.S. had better face up to the situation and stop at once the foolish moves for provoking a nuclear war. -0-