KCNA Commentary Slams U.S. for Aggravating Situation on Korean Peninsula

Pyongyang, January 9 (KCNA) -- The United States is still aggravating the situation on the Korean Peninsula. It seeks to convene in Canada in the middle of January foreign and defense ministerial meetings of those countries which took part in the Korean War. The meetings are targeted against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The Slovak internet paper Topki and Japanese Kyodo News quoted U.S. Secretary of State Tillerson as saying that the purpose of the meetings is to send a joint message of the world not allowing north Korea's nuclear possession and that the pressure upon it would be intensified. The U.S. behavior attempting to internationally incite atmosphere of sanctions and pressure against the DPRK from the beginning of the year is a dangerous farce to steadily aggravate the situation on the Peninsula and in the region. The DPRK's proactive step and sincere efforts from the beginning of the year command full support and deep sympathy at home and abroad. However, the U.S. which does not wish peace and stability of the Peninsula is now uneasy and restless. Even now he is busy calling upon the vassal forces that took part in the Korean War of aggression for a confab for a new war just as the U.S. did in the 1950s. All the facts clearly show who is the chieftain of aggravating the tension on the Peninsula and who is the disturber of global peace and stability. History repeats itself. As a responsible, peace-loving nuclear power, the DPRK will neither have recourse to nuclear weapons unless hostile forces of aggression violate its sovereignty and interests, but it will resolutely respond to acts of wrecking peace and security on the Peninsula. The satellite forces would be well advised to bear in mind that they will bitterly regret for their behaviors, if they run helter-skelter depending on the U.S. dashing toward the ruin. -0-