A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Tuesday released a press statement "The anachronistic and futile attempt to challenge the inviolable sovereignty and the prestige of the DPRK will entail self-destructive results".

The full text of the press statement is as follows:

Recently, the U.S. revealed again its sinister intention to put extreme political and military pressure on the DPRK in collusion with its vassal states, while viciously taking issue with the DPRK’s just exercise of independent right with the international security conference held in Munich of Germany as an occasion.

The U.S. secretary of State held a confab with the diplomatic authorities of Japan and the ROK on February 15 to cook up and make public a "joint statement" full of groundless mud-slinging and provocative rhetoric against the DPRK, talking about the "complete denuclearization of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea".

The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK expresses serious concern over the adventuristic and foolish act of the U.S., Japan and the ROK inciting collective confrontation and conflict in the Korean peninsula and the region and strongly warns that any provocation and threat of the hostile countries will face an overwhelming and decisive counteraction.

The U.S. is pursuing an outdated and absurd plan of "denuclearization", which is now getting more impossible and impracticable even in terms of practice and conception from the actual point of view. As for the shortsighted "goal" of the U.S., it is no more than the height of stupidity that arouses the astonishment of the world people as if ignorant primitives ask the moderns to return to their society.

The U.S. is not yet awakened from the failed old dream of "denuclearization", the phrase of which dimmed in memory at present. It is the official stand of the DPRK government that it is not worth consideration to respond to such escapist stand of the U.S., and we condemn and reject the U.S. action in the most resolute tone.

The U.S. will have to think itself first what kind of result the futile attempt of the imperialist forces, maintained for the past three decades to unilaterally hurt the security of the DPRK in disregard of the cause of origination and existence of the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula, has brought today.

Explicitly speaking once again, to the DPRK nukes represent peace and sovereignty and a means for legitimate self-defence entrusted by its Constitution as long as there exists the hostile threat from the U.S. and its vassal forces.

If the U.S. continues to resort to the ineffective means of pressure against the DPRK, failing to face up to the reality, the DPRK will continue to take a new opportunity for the upward coordination of its strategic force and hold further favorable position in the DPRK-U.S. conflicting structure.

The DPRK will as ever consistently adhere to the new line of bolstering up the nuclear force clarified by the head of state and thoroughly control the threat and blackmail of the U.S. and its vassal forces violating the former’s sovereignty and security interests, by making use of all its own political and military tools, and perfectly attain its strategic goal.

Rodong Sinmun