The Day of International Peace (September 21) was set by reflecting the desire of humankind to live in a peaceful and stable environment free from aggression and interference. But the security environment of the world is steadily being aggravated and threats to peace are increasing day after day.

It is the Korean peninsula where the structure of acute military confrontation has lasted from one decade to the next and from one century to the next.

On the Korean peninsula, a geographically important spot where the interests of powers are tangled, peace has been maintained without a war breaking out over the past decades thanks to the self-defence capabilities of the DPRK to firmly defend the destiny of the country and the people.

The US, which started the Korean war in the 1950s, has persistently been pursuing the policy of hostility toward the DPRK for a long period since the ceasefire in a bid to realize its wild ambition for world domination by annexing the Korean peninsula, far from drawing a lesson from its crushing defeat in the war of aggression.

Since the late 1950s, the US has conducted in the ROK various war drills against the DPRK, bringing nuclear strike means massively, and intentionally fabricated different troubles and events, ceaselessly intensifying nuclear threats and blackmail.

But each time the US yielded to the valiant spirit and indomitable mettle of the DPRK which countered “retaliation” with retaliation and all-out war with all-out war.

In the “nuclear posture review report” issued in 2002, the US formulated it as a policy to carry out a preemptive nuclear attack on the DPRK and in October 2013 it devised the so-called “tailored deterrence strategy” whereby it would make preemptive strike against the DPRK by dint of conventional forces and nuclear strike means. In its strategy documents issued later, the US wrote down without omission of its schemes for preemptive nuclear strike on the DPRK.

The DPRK legalized the state nuclear force policy and built up defence capabilities directly proportional to aggressive force to defend the sovereignty, territorial integrity and fundamental interests of the state against the ever-increasing military hostile acts of the US, prevent a war on the Korean peninsula and in Northeast Asia and ensure the strategic stability of the world.

As the reckless war hysterics of the US and its vassal forces continue in an attempt to dominate the Korean peninsula and the region by dint of its superior power, the DPRK will further strengthen its self-defence capabilities to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity and the lives and safety of the people from the hostile forces’ military threat, aggression and attack.

The imperialists will never present peace.

Great self-defence capabilities mean the strength to defend peace and the guarantee to defend sovereignty.