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Today “denuclearization” is an outdated word to be found only in a dictionary of dead words.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.