Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, issued the following press statement "Constant deployment of U.S. strategic assets highlights urgency of the DPRK to bolster up its self-defensive nuclear war deterrent" on Monday:

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

The U.S. Navy 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-U.S. alliance and increasing inter-operability".

The Carl Vinson strike group took part in the 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 U.S. nuclear strategic means on the Korean peninsula is the second one in the wake of the nuclear submarine Alexandria, and the U.S. Navy carrier appeared eight months after the Theodore Roosevelt in June last year.

If the actions of strategic bombers are put together, the U.S. is hurling strategic assets into the Korean peninsula at the constant deployment level.

In fact, the U.S. spent the whole of 2024 with the largest anti-DPRK war exercises ever in history. As soon as its new administration appeared this year, the U.S. has stepped up the 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 U.S. and its stooges one by one.

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

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

The U.S. held a confab with the diplomatic authorities of Japan and the ROK on Feb. 15, with the international security conference held in Munich of Germany as an occasion, and cooked up and made public a "joint statement" with "strengthened offer of U.S. nuclear umbrella through U.S.-ROK and U.S.-Japan alliances" as the main point, viciously pulling up the DPRK over its sovereign rights.

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

The U.S. 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 U.S.-Japan-ROK naval drill and the Freedom Shield joint military exercises, to be staged this month with Carl Vinson involved, as a momentum.

ROK media claim that the entry of Carl Vinson is aimed "to substantially implement the U.S. government’s reaffirmed commitment to permanent and iron-like extended deterrence" and to "display the strong joint defence posture of the ROK-U.S. alliance to cope with threat" from someone.

With such practical action measures, the U.S. has clearly shown its most hostile and confrontational will to the DPRK.

The root cause of escalating tension on the Korean peninsula clearly lies in the U.S. 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 bitterly condemns the reckless visible actions and muscle-flexing of the U.S. 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 U.S. 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 state’s security 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 action-accompanied hostile policy toward the DPRK pursued by the U.S. at present is offering 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 U.S. 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 the actions threatening the security of the enemy at the strategic level to cope with the fact that the deployment of U.S. 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.

Rodong Sinmun