Pyongyang, February 15 (KCNA) -- The chief of the Policy Office of the Ministry of National Defence of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Saturday issued the following press statement titled "The DPRK's bolstering of its self-defensive capabilities is an essential requirement for deterring rivals' ever-increasing various provocative attempts and ensuring the security of the state":
Some days ago, the commander of the U.S. Northern Command said that the DPRK has secured the capability to strike the whole of North America with nukes, adding that the DPRK's ICBM forces are posing a threat to the security of the U.S. mainland and its missile defense system.
The U.S. is bringing a serious threat to the security environment of the Korean peninsula and the rest of the world while seeking reckless arms buildup and radical modernization of nuclear force. Therefore, the U.S. talking about the "threat" from someone is a brigandish sophism like a guilty party filing the suit first, making profound confusing of right and wrong.
The strategic armed forces of the DPRK are the ones for defence to guarantee the security of the state and the strategic balance of the region.
The U.S. describing this as a "threat" only proves that it is hostile to the DPRK.
We express serious concern over the U.S. military's confrontational behavior to build up public opinion about the non-existent "threat" from the DPRK and justify the adventurous military ambition to gain the superiority of strength in the region under its pretext.
The present U.S. administration is advocating the establishment of an offensive missile defense system aimed at preemptive attack on other countries and weaponization of outer space under the pretext of defending its mainland. Timed to coincide with this, the commander of the U.S. Northern Command is talking about "the threat from the DPRK". This clearly shows what its real purpose is.
Shortly ago, the U.S. nuclear submarine openly entered the Korean peninsula, interested persons of the U.S. Space Force conspired with the Japanese and the ROK military gangsters to share information for detecting the ballistic missiles of the DPRK and conduct joint space exercises and the U.S. and the ROK militaries are planning to enforce the large-scale war drill Freedom Shield in March. All these facts become a good reason for the DPRK's bolstering of its corresponding defence capabilities to cope with the escalating military threat by rival states.
If the U.S. has real concern about the security of its mainland, the only way to remove it is to thoroughly abandon its military threat and hostile policy toward independent and sovereign states.
It is the just self-defensive right of a sovereign state to steadily develop the self-defence capability capable of effectively containing all the security threats of the present and future and ensuring the security of the state and the strategic balance of the region.
The armed forces of the DPRK will as ever fully deter and control all kinds of challenges and threats from its rival countries by dint of powerful self-defence capability and faithfully discharge their mission for reliably defending peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and in the region. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2025.02.15.)
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