Bolstering of Nuclear Force Is to Cope with U.S. Extreme Moves to Stifle DPRK: Foreign Ministry

Pyongyang, November 22 (KCNA) -- The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK released a memorandum on Monday detailing the traces of the crimes the U.S. committed by perpetrating a series of worst-ever hostile acts against the DPRK since the greatest loss suffered by the Korean nation and thus compelling it to bolster up its nuclear force. Since the year 2012, soon after the passing away of the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il, the U.S. began to openly pursue the objective to politically stifle the DPRK and overthrow its system by all means, the memorandum said, and went on: Blatant remarks denying the DPRK's government, system and policy were made by high-level officials of the U.S. and even Obama himself has constantly heaped malicious slander and criticism on the DPRK in his public appearances. The U.S. has gone so far as to breach the basic principles of international laws and ditch its dignity of a superpower by pleading with other countries to join their pressure racket against the DPRK through downgrading or severing ties with it. Giving an account of the fact that the U.S. revealed its intention to deliver a preemptive nuclear strike against the DPRK and intensified its military threats against the DPRK at a maximum pace during the last five years, the memorandum said: Beside the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises, the U.S. conducted over 40 provocative and aggressive military drills under various names on annual basis including Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercise, Max Thunder joint air force exercise, Double Dragon joint landing exercise and multilateral RIMPAC naval exercise, joint naval strike exercise, joint special force exercise, joint live firing exercise and so on. The total number of troops the U.S. has committed to these exercises reached over 500 000. The maneuvers of the U.S. to impose sanctions on the DPRK to suffocate it in the last five years was indeed unprecedented in its pace and intensity. Pursuant to the anti-DPRK "sanctions resolutions" it has forged, the U.S. is running amuck to impose unilateral sanctions while forcing other countries to get on board. All the facts above clearly substantiate the truth that the root cause of escalated tension on the Korean peninsula lies with the U.S. hostile policy and nuclear threats against the DPRK, not the latter's nuclear and missile tests. The U.S. should face up to the new strategic position of the DPRK and take actual measures to show that they are willing to scrap its anachronistic hostile policy and nuclear threat against the DPRK. -0-