The chief of the Foreign News Section of the Department of Press and Information of the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA on September 20 as regards the fact that the US decided to transfer the nuclear-powered submarine building technology to Australia:
The US has recently struck the trilateral security partnership with Britain and Australia and decided to transfer the technology for building a nuclear-powered submarine to Australia. It is an extremely undesirable and dangerous act which will upset the strategic balance in the Asia-Pacific region and trigger off a chain of nuclear arms race.
It is quite natural that neighbouring countries including China condemned the action as irresponsible one of destroying peace and stability in the region and the international nuclear non-proliferation system and of catalyzing the arms race.
Even a US ally denounces the US move as a "brutal, unilateral and unpredictable decision" and "a stab in the back".
The remark of the spokesperson for the White House that the decision is for "security of the Indo-Pacific region" amounts to an argument that any country can spread nuclear technology if it is in its interests, and this shows that the US is the chief culprit toppling the international nuclear non-proliferation system.
The US double-dealing attitude, which is getting all the more pronounced after the emergence of the new administration, erodes the universally accepted international norm and order and seriously threatens the world peace and stability.
The prevailing situation shows once again that bolstering the capabilities for national defence from a long-term perspective should not be slackened even a bit in order to cope with the ever-changing international security environment.
We are closely looking into the background of the US decision and its prospect and will certainly take a corresponding counteraction in case it has even a little adverse impact on the security of our country.
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Mikhail Alexandr Degtyarev, minister of Sports of the Russian Federation, and his party arrived in Pyongyang on November 22. They
