The US administration, through the two years of absolutely unjust and anachronistic practices, fully revealed that its much-hyped “improvement of relations” between the DPRK and the US means nothing but a system overthrow, “security assurance” an all-out preemptive nuclear strike and “confidence building” an invariable pursuit of isolation and suffocation of the DPRK, said DPRK Foreign Minister Ri Son Gwon on Friday.

His statement came as a reply message to the US on the occasion of the second anniversary of the DPRK-US summit talks on June 12.

He said the hope for improved bilateral relations, which flared up in the global spotlight two years ago, has now been reduced to despair over the spiralling deterioration in the relationship and even a slim ray of optimism for peace and prosperity on the Korean peninsula has faded away into a pessimistic nightmare.

Describing the total shutdown of the northern nuclear test site, the repatriation of scores of American POW/MIA remains and the special pardon for the convicted felons of American nationality who were held in detention as the significant measures of epoch-making decision taken by the supreme leadership of the DPRK, he stressed that especially the DPRK made a strategic decision to suspend nuclear test and test launch of ICBMs first on its own initiative in order to build confidence between the two countries.

However, the US, a party to the agreement, was hell-bent only on exacerbating the situation though it professed to be an advocate of improved relations with the DPRK over the past two years, he asserted, adding that the Korean peninsula has now turned into the world’s number one hotspot constantly haunted by the ghost of nuclear war, quite the opposite to the maintenance of a durable and lasting peace to which both sides committed themselves.

“The DPRK is still on the US list of targets for preemptive nuclear strike and all kinds of nuclear strike means held by the US are aimed directly at the DPRK. This is the stark reality at present,” he noted.

“The typical tangible evidence is the nuclear strategic bombers which fly into the south Korean airspace any time for nuclear strike drills and the aircraft carrier strike groups which bustle around the seas surrounding south Korea.”

He held that the US is introducing a large number of modern, cutting-edge military hardware like stealth fighters and reconnaissance drones worth tens of billions of dollars in order to transform the south Korean troops into an offensive-oriented army, and the south Korean authorities are offering an astronomical sum of money for that.

“All the facts clearly prove once again that unless the US scraps the 70-odd-year-long, deep-rooted policy hostile towards the DPRK for good, it will as ever remain a long-term threat to our state, system and people,” he emphasized.

He expressed doubt about whether there is a need to keep holding hands shaken in Singapore, given that no actual improvement has been made in bilateral relations owing to the maintenance of friendly relations between the DPRK’s supreme leadership and the US president.

All the achievements the current US administration has made so far are nothing more than the accumulation of its political accomplishments, he recalled, declaring that the DPRK will never again provide the US chief executive with any package to be used as material for his achievement hype gratis.

He referred to the fact that the DPRK’s supreme leadership discussed the national strategy for nuclear development and took measures to further bolster the country’s nuclear war deterrent in order to cope with the US protracted nuclear war threat in the Fourth Enlarged Meeting of the Seventh Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea.