The U.S. nuclear threat is the motive force driving the DPRK to further strengthen the nuclear forces.

If we had lived in a peaceful environment without any nuclear threat from the U.S., we would not have needed even a single nuclear weapon.

The extreme U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK and its nuclear threats are the root-cause and the force which drove us to the current stage of possessing and strengthening the nuclear weapons.

With regard to this issue, Sergey Markov, the director-general of the Research Institute of the Politics in Russia, commented that the purpose of the U.S. is to topple the system of Pyongyang and that is driving the DPRK to further enhance its nuclear deterrence.

The AP also reported that the DPRK’s claim on the rights of possessing nuclear weapons to protect itself from the nuclear super power that persistently seeks to change the DPRK government continuing the state of ceasefire since the Korean War in the 1950s should not be differentiated from those of other powers.

Neither “sanctions” nor pressure can reverse our efforts to strengthen the nuclear deterrence. That is because the “sanction” itself is a form of hostile act towards us and we have possessed nuclear weapons to protect ourselves in the light of such hostile acts.

The hostile forces headed by the U.S. try to stifle our economy and weaken our military strength by applying various kinds of “sanctions”. Their ultimate goal is to destroy our ideology and system by force of arms.

As we are fully aware of such sinister purpose, the more severe the hostile forces’ sanction manoeuvres become, the further we consolidate our military strength and nuclear deterrence.

Under the current situation where the nuclear armed DPRK and the U.S. stand in an acute confrontation, nothing can be more absurd than to tell us to give up the war deterrence unilaterally as it is quite like putting down a hunting gun in front of a fierce beast.

The U.S. is not a country which will give up its wild ambition for the aggression even if the other party puts down the weapon and makes a concession.

It has been clearly proven by the case of Iraq, which showed its “good faith” of leaving the president’s palace under the search by the inspection team yielding to the pressure from the U.S. and the West, and also by the one of Libya, which gave up nuclear development and tried to seek for “reconciliation”.

On March 8, Al Jazeera commented as follows: the DPRK still remembers the miserable end of Gaddafi who gave up nuclear plan, and it has not forgotten what happened in Ukraine that did not preserve the USSR nuclear weapons in its territory in return for receiving the guarantee for territorial integrity in 1994.

Neither hardships nor trials could change the policy of the DPRK. As of now, there is no reason for the DPRK to change its attitude, and it will be impossible to achieve the desired result by resorting to sanctions.

In the end, we came to a conclusion that the only way to defend the nation’s sovereignty and its right to existence is to further enhance the nuclear forces both in terms of quantity and quality and keep the balance of force in today’s extreme situation where the U.S. unhesitatingly forces wars and calamities upon other countries and nations by wielding its military high-handedness.