Preemptive Nuclear Strike Is Not Monopoly of U.S.: Rodong Sinmun

Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- AP reported that the DPRK's declaration that a nuclear warhead explosion test and a test-fire of several types of ballistic rockets capable of carrying nuclear warheads will be conducted in a short time sounds plausible and Washington should cautiously approach the former's nuclear development capability. A newspaper of Japan said that the U.S. should not interpret as a simple threat a successful simulated test of atmospheric re-entry of a ballistic rocket opened to the public by the DPRK on March 15. Foreign media including UK and Canada reported that the DPRK's declaration on the miniaturized nuclear warheads and the access to atmospheric re-entry of a ballistic rocket was by no means hypocrisy but truth. Therefore, it goes to clearly prove that Washington's estimation was wrong as it ignored the nuclear development capability of the DPRK. Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says in a commentary in this regard: Western media's assertion is little short of a slap in the face of the U.S. intelligence institutions which have underestimated the DPRK's military capability. The U.S. escalating nuclear threat and blackmail, sanctions and pressure only redouble the DPRK's muscle. Preemptive nuclear strike is by no means a monopoly of the U.S. The Obama administration would be well advised to come to its senses, though belatedly. -0-