KCNA Commentary Ridicules U.S. Scared by DPRK's Fire of Large-Caliber Multiple Rocket Launcher

Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- The U.S. is terming the DPRK's recent fire of new type large-caliber multiple rocket launcher the "short-range missile launch" and violation of the UN "resolution". As soon as the DPRK's new type weapon fire was reported on March 21, the south Korean puppet forces claimed that the "north launched a short-range projectile" and the special representative of the U.S. Department of State for Korea policy, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of State for the East Asian and Pacific Affairs and a spokesman for the U.S. Defense Department vied with each other in blustering that the "missile launch by use of the ballistic missile-firing technology is a clear violation of the UN Security Council's resolution" and "north Korea should refrain from escalating tension and focus on taking detailed measures for keeping international promise and duty". The U.S. is now taken aback by the DPRK's tremendous military muscle. If the U.S. fears the DPRK so much, the former should have withdrawn all its military hardware from south Korea and stopped joint military drills for aggression. The U.S. is staging the nuclear war drills targeting the DPRK while openly revealing its ulterior intention to do harm to the dignity of the supreme leadership and social system of the latter even by throwing away its mask of "annual and defensive exercises". This makes the international community believe that the U.S. is, indeed, the arch criminal escalating tension. The U.S. cannot label the DPRK's toughest countermeasures for safeguarding the sovereignty and right to existence of the country and the nation as illegal ones nor can it conceal its criminal nature. Unless the U.S. drops its nuclear threat and blackmail and hostile policy toward the DPRK, the latter will take stronger measures for self-defense to cope with them. -0-