Pyongyang, July 20 (KCNA) -- Kang Sun Nam, minister of National Defence of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), issued the following press statement on July 20: In defiance of the repeated warning by the DPRK and serious concern of the international community, the U.S. and the group of traitors of the "Republic of Korea" (ROK) held a meeting of the "nuclear consultative group" on July 18 to discuss the plan for using nuclear weapons against the DPRK. In particular, the hostile forces posed the most undisguised and direct nuclear threat to the DPRK by bringing an Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarine to the Pusan Port operation base, which means strategic nuclear weapons have been deployed on the Korean peninsula for the first time after 40 odd years. This shows that the U.S. scenario for a nuclear attack upon the DPRK and its implementation have entered the most critical stage of visualization and systemization and the phase of a military clash on the Korean peninsula has surfaced as a dangerous reality beyond all sorts of imagination and presumption. Among the nuclear-armed nations of the world, the U.S. is the only country which openly made it its policy to use its nuclear weapons against a specific country. No one will be able to deny the gravity and dangerousness of the security environment facing the DPRK in the light of that fact alone. The U.S. and the traitors of the "ROK" are widely advertising the deployment of gigantic strategic nuclear weaponry of the U.S. We correctly know why such weapons have found themselves on the Korean peninsula and where they came from. As the U.S. and the "ROK" gangsters have gone beyond the "red line" in their military hysteria, now is the time for the DPRK to make clear once again its corresponding action choice and response direction. The military security situation in the area of the Korean peninsula, which has undergone a fundamental change due to the reckless military moves of the U.S. and its followers, more clearly indicates what mission the nuclear weapons of the DPRK should carry out. Through this press statement, I remind the U.S. military of the fact that the ever- increasing visibility of the deployment of the strategic nuclear submarine and other strategic assets may fall under the conditions of the use of nuclear weapons specified in the DPRK law on the nuclear force policy. The DPRK's doctrine on the use of nuclear weapons allows the execution of necessary action procedures in case a nuclear attack is launched against it or it is judged that the use of nuclear weapons against it is imminent. The U.S. military side should realize that its nuclear assets have entered extremely dangerous waters. I seriously warn once again the U.S. and the "ROK" military gangsters' group daringly touting the "end of regime" in our country. To the U.S. and the "ROK", any use of their military muscle against the DPRK will be their most miserable choice by which they will have no room to think of their existence again. The armed forces of the DPRK will responsibly carry out their important mission for defending the country's sovereignty, territorial integrity and fundamental interests and preventing a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula and in the Northeast Asian region by thoroughly deterring and repelling the crazy maneuvers of the U.S. and its stooges to use nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula.
Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of
C.C., WPK
Pyongyang, July 17 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central
Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, made the following press statement on
Monday:
Recently the U.S. side builds up public opinion that the DPRK does not respond to
dialogue.
This is a tendency reflecting the uneasy and anxious mind of the U.S. which has
continuously witnessed the thing it most fears in recent days.
The present situation in the Korean peninsula has reached such a phase that the
possibility of an actual armed conflict and even the outbreak of a nuclear war is
debated, going far beyond the phase of acute confrontation between the DPRK and the
U.S. created in 2017.
As I had already clarified who is entirely responsible for the situation, this time I am
going to refer to the absurdity of "dialogue without any preconditions" and "opened door
of diplomacy" much touted by the U.S. in public.
We had held a series of dialogues and negotiations with the U.S. since the 1990s.
Therefore, we are aware that lurking behind the present U.S. administration's proposal
for "dialogue without any preconditions" is a trick to prevent the thing it fears from
happening again.
Even if the DPRK-U.S. dialogue is supposed to start, it is as clear as noonday that the
present U.S. administration will put nothing but only "CVID" on the negotiation table.
Today “denuclearization” is an outdated word to be found only in a dictionary of dead
words.
No matter how hard the U.S. racks its brain, it would be impossible for it to find out the
terms and bargaining chip for negotiation with the DPRK.
We can predict the possibility that the U.S. may play such old trick as a temporary halt
to the U.S.-south Korea joint military drills, to which its preceding president was
committed a few years ago, or merely please someone with such reversible things as
reduced combined military drills and halt to the deployment of strategic assets.
Such a slender trick for earning time can never work on us.
Once decided, the strategic assets of the U.S. will be deployed in the Korean peninsula
in a matter of 10 hours and 20 days will be enough for it to resume the joint military
exercises by re-deploying troops.
We are well aware that if the U.S. employs such a strategic trick as the end of its
military presence in south Korea and withdraws all its troops and military equipment
from south Korea, which is something fantastical, it will take only 15 days for the
overseas-stationed U.S. troops to return to the "Republic of Korea" and turn it into a
military vantage point.
It is as easy as pie for the U.S. political circles to exclude the DPRK from the list of
"sponsors of terrorism" today but re-list it tomorrow.
In the final analysis, we are well aware that what the U.S. can offer to the DPRK in the
dialogue is all changeable and reversible.
However, what the U.S. wants from the DPRK is the "complete and irreversible
denuclearization".
Then, can we exchange the eternal security of our state for immediate benefit, pinning
our faith on such reversible commitment?
We do not act against our own interests.
The U.S. might be well aware why the DPRK has no interest in the dialogue with it.
Even through the recent UNSC meeting on our launch of new-type ICBM, we could
clearly confirm once again how our rivals have prolonged their policy toward the DPRK
and what a sweet dream they have, along with the transfer of power from Moon Jae
In to Yoon Suk Yeol, and from Trump to Biden.
In the United States of America and the "Republic of Korea," any agreements, signed
and committed by preceding presidents, are instantly reversed once new regimes
emerge.
That's why we have to adopt a long-term strategy against the "ROK", the top-class
stooge of America, and the USA, the empire of world evils, not such individuals as Yoon
Suk Yeol or Biden, and build up a mechanism for guaranteeing the prospective security
of the DPRK on the basis of overwhelming deterrent.
It is a daydream for the U.S. to think that it can stop the advance of the DPRK and,
furthermore, achieve irreversible disarmament through the interim suspension of joint
military exercises, halt to the deployment of strategic assets and the reversible sanction
relief.
We squarely face up and attach importance to the reality.
The reality before the DPRK is not dialogue repeatedly touted by the U.S. like an
automatic teller machine but the nuclear strategic bomber flying near the DPRK
regardless of time, air espionage of the U.S. violating our territorial sovereignty,
convocation of the "nuclear consultative group" meeting openly discussing the use of
nukes against the DPRK and the entry of U.S. strategic nuclear submarine into waters
of the Korean peninsula for the first time in 40-odd years.
The U.S. should know that its bolstered extended deterrence system and excessively
extended military alliance system, a threatening entity, will only make the DPRK go
farther away from the negotiating table desired by it.
The most appropriate way for ensuring peace and stability in the Korean peninsula at
present is to deter the U.S. highhanded and arbitrary practices in the position of might
and with enough exercise of power, rather than solving the problem with the gangster-
like Americans in a friendly manner.
The DPRK is ready for resolutely countering any acts of violating its sovereignty and
territorial integrity, threatening the wellbeing of its people and destroying peace and
stability of the Korean peninsula.
The U.S. should stop its foolish act of provoking the DPRK even by imperiling its
security.
What the U.S. witnessed in a worry a few days ago is just a beginning of the DPRK’s
already-launched military offensive.
Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of
C.C., WPK
Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers'
Party of Korea, issued the following press statement on July 14:
To thoroughly contain and frustrate the most hostile and threatening nuclear
confrontation policy of the U.S. against the DPRK is the just right to self-defence
to defend the Korean peninsula and the Asia-Pacific region from the disaster of a
nuclear war, and no one has any justification for slandering the DPRK's launch of
new-type ICBM.
The recent launch, conducted in the safest way, taking into full consideration any
potential danger that may affect the security of neighboring countries, did not do
any harm to international maritime and air security.
However, the UNSC held an open meeting again to unilaterally pick a quarrel
with the DPRK's exercise of the right to self-defence, in disregard of the DPRK's
just security concern and the U.S. criminal attempt to increase the possibility of
outbreak of a real nuclear war in the Korean peninsula and the region. This
perfectly proved that it is a confrontation organization destroying the global peace
and stability and a new Cold War mechanism totally inclined to the U.S. and the
West.
I express strong displeasure over and scathingly condemn the unfair and
prejudiced behavior of the UNSC which again called into question the DPRK's
exercise of its just right to self-defence, which did not hurt anyone, under the
unchanged and boring illegal pretext of violation of the UN "resolution".
Due to the aggressive provocations of the U.S. far beyond its constant military
readiness, the situation of the Korean peninsula is now heading toward the
threshold of nuclear clash and the outbreak of a nuclear war is not hypothetical but
is becoming a miserable reality that countries in the Northeast Asian region have to
face in the near future.
The U.S. has frequently staged the joint military drills with clear aggressive
character by mobilizing nuclear submarines, nuclear strategic bombers and other
various nuclear strategic assets under the pretext of the offer of the so-called
"extended deterrence" and planned to put into the Korean peninsula a nuclear
submarine with strategic nukes for the first time in more than 40 years, along with
the operation of the U.S.-south Korea "nuclear consultative group", a nuclear war
tool. Such military provocations of the U.S. are the most direct threat to the
security of not only the DPRK but also all other Northeast Asian countries.
The UNSC, whose mission is to defend global peace and security, should have
squarely confronted this fact and properly judged who threatens with nukes and
who is exposed to nuclear threat.
Ignoring such bounden duty, the UNSC connived at and fostered and even
instigated the U.S. moves to exterminate the DPRK, an expression of the extremely
unfair and double-standard behavior. This is an irresponsible crime of pushing the
whole of Northeast Asia and Asia-Pacific to the holocaust of a nuclear war.
As the UNSC deliberately ignores the U.S. dangerous nuclear threat and
blackmail, the U.S. nuclear weapons including strategic nuclear submarine will be
more massively, often and openly deployed in the Korean peninsula under the
mask of "lawfulness," and the Northeast Asia will be soon turned into the world's
biggest nuclear arsenal.
If an undesirable, unprecedented nuclear war breaks out in the Korean peninsula,
the UNSC will be held accountable for it as it has worked hard to categorically
restrain the DPRK from exercising its legitimate right to self-defense while being
on the U.S. side.
Availing myself of this opportunity, I warn that the riffraff, accustomed to follow
their U.S. master blindly, joined in making public an anti-DPRK "joint statement"
which is not recognized by anyone outside the arena.
The U.S. should be aware that the more it makes the DPRK feel unpleasant, the
worse it finds itself in a dilemma.
Only when the U.S. withdraws its hostile policy toward the DPRK, can the
DPRK's displeasure and the evil cycle of the situation, which no one wants,
disappear.
However, the more the U.S. persists in its reckless and provocative confrontation
option, refusing to reject it, the more the situation will lead to a very unpleasant
direction for the U.S., and it itself will feel it every minute, every second, every
hour and every day.
The price the U.S. has to pay for its moves against the DPRK will never be low,
and I do not conceal the fact that very unlucky things will wait for the U.S.
The U.S. should be aware that the DPRK's mode and scope of counteraction may
be freer along with the increased "visibility" of deploying strategic assets on the
Korean peninsula.
Now that the U.S. does not respond to the abandonment of its hostile policy
toward the DPRK, the only solution to achieving peace and stability in the Korean
peninsula and the region, the DPRK will further put spurs to building up the most
overwhelming nuclear deterrence until the U.S. admits its policy failure and for
itself rolls back its line of confrontation with the DPRK.
