U.S. Politicians Urged to Make Switchover in DPRK Policy, Though Belatedly

Pyongyang, March 27 (KCNA) -- The Trump administration claims that it has not yet confirmed its policy toward the DPRK. But what is heard from the U.S. administration is that its idea is little different from the failed "strategic patience" policy of Obama, says Rodong Sinmun Monday in a commentary. If there be any difference, the new U.S. administration is mulling adding to its strategy the proposal for ratcheting up the military pressure on the DPRK through the re-deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in south Korea, the commentary observes, and goes on: If the U.S. policy-makers do not want to repeat the failed DPRK policy, they should shape a policy based on the changed reality. The strategic position of Juche Korea as a nuclear power in the East has grown stronger in the international arena. Gone are the days never to return when the U.S. could unilaterally put military pressure on the DPRK. The U.S. had considered the DPRK, a non-nuclear state, as a target of nuclear blackmail for several decades. The U.S. administration had better lend an ear to the serious advice of the international community that its insistence on the senseless hostile policy toward the DPRK would make it suffer bitter setbacks as its predecessor did. The U.S. politicians have to draw a lesson from the past and make a bold decision to make a switchover in its policy if they have an iota of reason. This is the only way for saving the U.S. from destruction. -0-