U.S. Had Better Not to Miss Opportunity: KCNA Commentary

Pyongyang, May 12 (KCNA) -- There are a series of assertions that the Obama administration should boldly make a policy switchover now that the balance of force between the U.S. and the DPRK has changed. The U.S. magazine Foreign Policy on April 27 carried an article on the Obama administration's failed policy towards the DPRK. Recalling that in 1994 the Clinton administration made such agreement with the DPRK as the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework, the article blamed the Obama administration for having blocked the channel of negotiations with the DPRK only to push Pyongyang to further developing its nuclear weapons and missile program. If the Obama administration sticks to the principle of not taking the lesson drawn from the 1990s into consideration at all nor engaging the DPRK, it will miss the opportunity for good, it held. For more than half a century the U.S. has staged ceaseless mad-cap nuclear war drills for a nuclear attack on the DPRK after deploying a lot of nuclear weapons. The present Obama regime set it as the pivot of its policy toward the DPRK to deny dialogue and wait with "patience" until the DPRK shows a sign of change in its actions like nuclear dismantlement and has persistently pursued the policy since its emergence while imposing pressure and "sanctions" upon the latter. Pursuant to the policy, joint military drills involving all types of lethal war hardware and huge aggressor troops have been staged every year in south Korea and its vicinity to seriously threaten the security of the DPRK, thus escalating the military threat seeking the "collapse of its social system." The DPRK was entirely just and legitimate when it had access to nukes to protect its sovereignty and dignity of the nation from the ceaseless nuclear threat and blackmail and aggression by the U.S. As the world's biggest nuclear weapons state U.S. has antagonized the DPRK and escalated nuclear threat, the DPRK was compelled to have access to nukes, and the Obama administration's DPRK policy pushed it to having access to H-bomb. If the U.S. persists in its policy hostile to the DPRK, paying no heed to anyone's advice, the nuclear deterrent of the DPRK will be steadily bolstered up both in quality and quantity to defend the sovereignty of the country, vital rights of the nation and peace on the Korean peninsula and in other parts of the region. Opportunity will not be given to the U.S. at all times. -0-