Pyongyang, April 30 (KCNA) -- Key Resolve and Foal Eagle 16 joint military drills staged by the U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces against the DPRK for 50 odd days were the worst-ever military provocations that pushed the situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war, said a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK in a statement on Saturday.

    The statement went on:

    The war rehearsals were the largest-ever maneuvers hostile to the DPRK as it was manifested in the drills that the U.S. scenario and moves to physically eliminate the DPRK reached an extremely dangerous phase.

    It is tantamount to an open declaration of war against the DPRK that the U.S., kicking off the drills, undisguisedly revealed its attempt to mount a preemptive attack on the DPRK after discarding even the spurious mask of "defensive drills."

We didn't overlook it but countered it with measures for self-defence in a just manner

 It is the pivot of the DPRK's counteractions for self-defence to counter the enemy's nuclear threat with its own nuclear weapons.

    It is the legitimate right of a sovereign state specified also in the UN Charter for the DPRK to react to the enemy's declaration of war and threat with its own steps for self-defence, and even the UN Security Council is not entitled to infringe upon the right.
    By opting for undisguised military hostile acts and threats to the DPRK, the U.S. intentionally and completely reneged on the promise specified in the September 19 joint statement as its keynote that it would respect the sovereignty of the DPRK and co-exist with it peacefully and has no intent to attack or invade it with nuclear or conventional weapons.

    So, the statement was finally scrapped.

    The U.S. no longer has legal foundation or moral justification to urge the DPRK to "be true to its commitments" and the like.

    The DPRK will as ever remain unchanged in its stand of countering any war of aggression to be provoked by the enemy with its just war and react to the threat of a nuclear war posed by them with its bolstered nuclear deterrent.

    Whenever the enemy stage war drills, the nuclear attack capability of the DPRK will be bolstered up remarkably.

 

Songun Korea Will Last Forever:

DPRK Government, Political Parties, Organizations

Pyongyang, April 30 (KCNA) -- The government, political parties and organizations of the DPRK issued a joint statement on Saturday in connection with the fact that another round of grim decisive showdown with the hostile forces is culminating in the victory of Songun Korea.

    The statement said:

    The U.S. and south Korean puppet group staged the largest-ever dangerous nuclear war exercises Key Resolve and Foal Eagle 16 from March 7 to April 30 and all sorts of riff-raffs slapped harsh "sanctions" against the DPRK. However, it countered their rackets with its own style bold, exceptional and the toughest countermeasures, throwing them into inescapable horror, uneasiness, confusion and tight corner

The dozens of days-long showdown made by it with these hostile forces drew keen attention of the public at home and abroad and its aftershock is still going on.

The government, political parties and organizations of the DPRK seriously warned the U.S. and its followers as follows with the qualifications and right of the full-fledged nuclear power, looking back upon exciting days when the DPRK resolutely coped with the unjust military strong-arm actions and threat of a nuclear war by its own efforts, firmly defended peace, security and dignity of the nation and recorded a fresh page in the world political history:

    Firstly, no one should pursue an ulterior motive as regards the nuclear weapons of the DPRK which represent its independence, dignity and lifeline, now that it has rounded off its nuclear attack capability at the highest level to cope with the U.S. and its followers' threat of a nuclear war which reached an extreme phase.

    The warmongers' recent reckless moves to trample down the sovereignty of the DPRK and deprive the Korean people of the right to existence provided it with a golden opportunity of bolstering up its nuclear force in quality and quantity.
    The DPRK has got everything desired and had access to everything required and acquired the status of a nuclear power having all types of substantial means capable of successfully coping with the U.S. nuclear edge and nuclear hegemony both in name and reality.

    As long as the hostile acts and threat of aggression against the DPRK persist along with the nuclear blackmail, and imperialism, the root cause of injustice and evils, remains in the world, the DPRK will further sharpen its treasured nuclear sword of justice and defend both sovereignty and justice with nukes and usher in a fresh era of national reunification and prosperity by dint of its might.

    Secondly, the U.S. and the puppet group should not dream of the so-called effect of "sanctions" and "blockade" against the DPRK today when the Korean style economic power is on the horizon to enable all the people to enjoy the happiest life under the uplifted banner of the self-development-first principle.

    The stereo-typed trumpeting about "sanctions" and "blockade" against the DPRK will never work on it today when it is achieving the economic development of the country and improvement of the people's living on the invincible self-development-first principle, pursuant to the Juche-oriented line of simultaneously developing the two fronts, not by any help of other.

    The U.S. and the puppet group's harsh "sanctions" against the DPRK will only turn out to be a noose tightening their necks by themselves and they will keenly feel how long they have resorted to the foolish and mean acts, watching the majestic appearance of the economic power on this land and hearing the happy laughter.

Thirdly, the U.S. and its followers should clearly understand that the longer they pursue the confrontation with the DPRK, the bitterer disgrace and shame they will suffer as the loser and the more legendary tales about steady victories Songun Korea will convey to posterity.

    Now is the time for the U.S. and its followers to cool their heads heated by war hysteria and take a fresh option for their own benefits as they have been hell-bent on the moves to realize their unattainable goal of invading the DPRK.

    The U.S. should make a bold decision to roll back its hostile policy toward the DPRK, the root cause of tension on the Korean Peninsula and its surrounding areas, and stop the war exercises against it, far from persistently taking issue with its nuclear weapons which do not pose any threat to anyone.

 

U.S. Is Wholly to Blame for Tension on Korean Peninsula: KCNA Commentary

Pyongyang, April 30 (KCNA) -- Leon V. Sigal, director of the Social Science Research Council of the United States, recently dedicated an article critical of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK to the U.S. magazine National Interest dealing with international relations.

    The U.S. is giving impression that it has made efforts to settle the issues with the DPRK in a diplomatic way, the article said, adding the DPRK placed moratorium on the production of all nuclear materials for nearly a decade after the conclusion of the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework in 1994 but the U.S. reneged on its commitment to normalizing the DPRK-U.S. relations and providing energy and resorted to such hostile acts as banning the DPRK's banking transactions.

The U.S. prejudice against the DPRK makes it impossible to hold talks. The U.S.

hould discuss the security matters of concern with the DPRK on the principle of mutual respect.

    This is, in a word, similar to the assertion that the U.S. should roll back its hostile policy toward the DPRK.

    The U.S. ill-intended inveterate repugnancy and deep-rooted hostile policy toward the dignified DPRK are the main source of constant tension on the Korean peninsula and the U.S. is chiefly to blame for this.

    Genuine peace has never settled on the Korean peninsula even a moment during the DPRK-U.S. confrontation started in real

The U.S. has worked hard to pass the buck for it on the DPRK while talking volumes about "provocation" and "threat."

    However, this is no more than a fig-leaf to cover up its scenario to invade the DPRK.

There is no ground whatsoever for the DPRK to aggravate the situation on the Korean peninsula as it is associated with the soul of the ancestors and remains the cradle of the fellow countrymen.

    The U.S. is the arch criminal who turned the peninsula into the world's hottest spot over which the dark clouds of a nuclear war is hanging all the time.

It has pursued its hostile policy toward the DPRK for decades in a bid to use the peninsula, a geopolitical and strategic vantage point, as a springboard for attaining world supremacy.

    It turned south Korea into the world's biggest nuclear arsenal and put the DPRK on the list of the targets of nuclear attack, frantically kicking up a racket for provoking a nuclear war against it in the new century.

    The present Obama administration caused the August incident that pushed the situation to the eve of war on the Korean peninsula last year. Not content with this, it staged largest-ever nuclear war drills for invading the north this year while undisguisedly crying out for "bringing down its social system", creating a touch-and-go situation on the peninsula.

    The U.S. following a hostile policy toward the DPRK and stepping up the nuclear war moves is the sworn enemy of the Korean nation.

    The DPRK had access to nuclear weapons, pursuant to a resolute strategic decision, and steadily bolstered them, foiling the U.S. hostile policy and reliably protecting the sovereignty of the country and the nation.

    The U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK is the most criminal one consistently pushing the situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of a war and a foolish strategy that compelled the DPRK to possess H-bomb.

    Public in every part of the world is becoming increasingly vocal asserting that the DPRK's access to nuclear weapons was quite just and the U.S. policy to stifle the DPRK serves as a main source of harassing peace and security in the region.
    The U.S. will have to pay the dearest price for its criminal and suicidal hostile policy that put the situation on the Korean peninsula and in the region into crisis and compelled the DPRK to emerge a nuclear weapons state.

 

Educational Realities of DPRK and U.S. in Sharp Contrast

Pyongyang, April 30 (KCNA) -- Some time ago, a school bus service started for pupils in Unjong Science District of the DPRK.

    It is a common practice in the DPRK to build branch schools for a few children in small islands or mountainous villages and run school trains, boats and buses for those pupils at the state expense.

    In the DPRK everyone has the right to receive education by law and institutionally and he or she is given free education ranging from kindergarten to primary and secondary schools and university.

    And anyone can enjoy learning under the study-while-working educational system free of charge.

    But, the educational condition in capitalist society is in sharp contrast with that in the DPRK.

    Reportedly, in the U.S. more than half of the colored and minority ethnic schoolboys leave high school halfway and 67. 5 percent of the Latinic students and 53 percent of the black can hardly get higher education, due to the racial discrimination.
    Meanwhile, the number of schools decreases steadily under various pretexts and school fees has gone up every year, reducing seven of the ten university graduates into debtors.

    Such wrong attitude of the U.S. government toward the educational work has gradually deteriorated the quality of education in the country. So, the secretary of Education deplored that throughout the country 11 million adults could neither read nor write and 30 millions could barely sign on a document or a bank check.