Kim Yo Jong, deputy department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement "Constant deployment of US strategic assets highlights urgency of the DPRK’s effort to bolster up its self-defensive nuclear war deterrent" on March 3:

The US is frequently committing provocative acts of aggravating the situation in disregard of the security concern of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The US Navy’s nuclear carrier Carl Vinson strike group entered the Pusan operation base in the ROK again on March 2 under the pretext of "demonstrating the ROK-US alliance and increasing inter-operability".

The Carl Vinson strike group took part in war drills together with Japan and the ROK in the waters around the Korean peninsula in January last year. It is reported that the strike group consists of cruiser Princeton , Aegis destroyer Sterett and others.

Entering this year, the deployment of the US nuclear strategic means to the Korean peninsula is the second after the nuclear submarine Alexandria , and a US Navy’s carrier appeared eight months after the Theodore Roosevelt in June last year.

If the deployments of strategic bombers are added, the US is hurling strategic assets into the Korean peninsula at the constant deployment level.

In fact, the US spent the whole of 2024 with the largest anti-DPRK war exercises that have ever been staged. As soon as its new administration appeared this year, the US has stepped up political and military provocations against the DPRK, "carrying forward" the former administration's hostile policy.

It is necessary to read a diary of the confrontation hysteria of the US and its stooges one by one.

On January 10, just before the retirement of the former administration, the US held the 4th US-ROK "nuclear consultative group" meeting in Washington to discuss the increased regular visibility of nuclear war drills and deployment of the US strategic assets on the Korean peninsula. And it deployed B-1B strategic bombers in the sky near the Korean peninsula on January 15 to conduct a US-Japan-ROK joint air drill, as part of the clear practical action.

Timed to coincide with this, the US, together with the ROK army, staged a large joint firing drill aimed at the long-range artillery firing system of the DPRK on January 14-16, and a joint air drill code-named Ssangmae on January 21-24 under the pretext of increasing the capability for cooperation in air operations.

The US held a confab with the diplomatic authorities of Japan and the ROK on February 15, with the international security conference held in Munich of Germany as an occasion, and cooked up and made public a "joint statement" with "intensified offer of US nuclear umbrella through US-ROK and US-Japan alliances" as its gist, viciously taking issue with the DPRK on its sovereign rights.

A few days later, it deployed its B-1B strategic bomber into the sky over the area in and around the Korean peninsula again on February 20 to stage a joint air drill together with the Air Force of the ROK.

The US vicious moves for confrontation with the DPRK have been intensified in March with the appearance of Carl Vinson in the Korean peninsula. Such moves will reach the climax with the US-Japan-ROK naval drill and the Freedom Shield joint military exercises, to be staged this month involving Carl Vinson , as a momentum.

ROK media claim that the entry of Carl Vinson is aimed at "substantially implementing the US government's reaffirmed commitment to permanent and iron-like extended deterrence" and "displaying the strong joint defence posture of the ROK-US alliance to cope with threat" from someone.

With such practical measures, the US has clearly shown its willingness to take the most hostile and confrontational approach towards the DPRK.

The root cause of the escalating tension on the Korean peninsula clearly lies in the US and its allies which are further intensifying military moves to implant NATO infrastructure in the region and improve the level of war preparations.

The DPRK strongly condemns the reckless muscle-flexing actions of the US and its vassal forces disregarding and violating a sovereign state's security concern and jeopardizing the peaceful environment in the whole region.

As indicated by the regional military situation, the US and its stooges' heinous ambition to threaten, pressurize and bring the DPRK to its knees by force of arms is developing into a more reckless phase with the passage of time.

As for the DPRK's nuclear policy formulated as a main law of the DPRK, it was adopted in correct reflection of the concern for the state's security caused by the present and future threats. And the present reality further highlights the justness, validity and necessity of the DPRK's line on bolstering up its nuclear forces.

The US’s action-accompanied hostile policy towards the DPRK at present offers sufficient justification for the DPRK to indefinitely bolster up its nuclear war deterrent.

We will never confine ourselves to sitting still and commenting on the situation.

If the US continues to renew its records in the anti-DPRK military demonstration, the DPRK will be naturally compelled to renew its records in the exercise of strategic deterrence.

The DPRK is also planning to carefully examine the option for increasing actions threatening the security of the enemy nation at the strategic level to cope with the fact that the deployment of US strategic assets in the Korean peninsula has become a vicious habit and adversely affects the security of the DPRK.

The enemies should not test the will and ability of the DPRK to defend the sovereignty and security interests of the state by mobilizing all means in hand.

It's a very dangerous thing.

KCNA