The U.S. nuclear threat to and encroachment upon the sovereignty of the DPR Korea is the root cause of the aggravation of situation on the Korean Peninsula

The whole world is watching very closely the dangerous situation on the Korean Peninsula with great concern and unrest.

The ever worst danger of war between arms and between nukes is being created amidst acute confrontation between the nuclear armed DPRK and the U.S. forces.

The U.S. no longer bothers to disguise its military exercises as “defensive” and “annual” ones, but is waging the ferocious offensive maneuvers, openly advocating “Decapitating Operation”, “inland occupation” and “advance towards Pyongyang” targeting our supreme headquarters and the toppling of system for which the hugest amount of troops, strategic nuclear striking means and the special forces have been mobilized.

The DPRK is demonstrating its modern military means like nuclear warhead and ballistic rockets against such manoeuvres, declaring that it will deliver a pre-emptive nuclear strike to thoroughly frustrate the special operation of the U.S. and south Korean troops in advance if any slightest sign is detected.

It poses a realistic threat clear to everyone that a tiny spark can lead to the all-out war on the Korean Peninsula which will escalate into the thermonuclear war that will set the whole world on fire.

There are some simple and prejudiced views that the current touch-and-go situation is attributable to the first hydrogen bomb test and the launch of an artificial satellite conducted by the DPRK.

Such views will make the issue much more complicated far from being of any help for its settlement. In order to solve the issue, it is of vital importance to gain a deep insight into the root cause of the deterioration of situation on the Korean Peninsula and also to have a correct understanding of our nuclear possession and the launch of artificial satellite.

What made the DPRK to possess nuclear weapons? The U.S. nuclear threat towards the DPRK is, by no means, an abstract notion but a reality.

The DPRK is the country that was directly under nuclear threat and blackmail most persistent and intense for the longest period.

Only recently, the world is seriously concerned about the danger of nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula; however the DPRK had already been placed on the threshold of a nuclear war as early as in the 1950s.

On November 30, 1950, at the height of the Korean War, the then U.S. President Truman publicly stated about the use of atomic bomb and following his statement McArthur, the then Commander of the U.S. Forces in the Far East worked out the plan in the following December to use dozens of A-bombs and to set up the radioactive corridor in the northern part of Korea that would cover the area between the east coast and the west coast and attempted to put that plan into practice.

Furthermore, the U.S. had planned the use of atomic bomb six times during the period of the Korean War including the exercise of B-29 strategic bombers of the U.S. air force simulating atomic bomb drops in the skies of Pyongyang in September and October 1951.

The issue of separated families and relatives, the longstanding issue between the north and the south of Korea is none other than the tragic result of the U.S. nuclear blackmail during the Korean War.

 Even after the conclusion of the Korean War Armistice Agreement, the U.S. has ceaselessly increased nuclear threats against the DPRK by bringing the first tactical nuclear weapon into south Korea in 1957 as a start, and since then, around 1,720 nuclear weapons have been deployed combat ready by the mid of 1980s

The deployment of various kinds of nuclear weapons ranging from the backpack nuke to neutron bomb, the so-called ‘’Devil’s weapon of the 20th century’’ literally turned south Korea into an 3 exhibition hall for U.S. nuclear weapons.

It was only too clear who is the target of those vast amount of nuclear weapons deployed in the southern part of not so big Korean Peninsula and for the DPRK it was a serious threat indeed, endangering the existence of the country and nation itself.

The U.S. not only brought the nuclear weapons into south Korea but also made actual threat of nuclear attack against the DPRK. Every year since 1954, the U.S. has been mobilizing a huge amount of nuclear weapons in and around south Korea to wage nuclear war exercises against the DPRK, changing their titles from ‘’Focus Lens’’ to ’’Foal Eagle’’ and to ‘’Team Spirit’’ and on, and it has persistently increased the nuclear threat towards the DPRK.

According to the state documents declassified by the U.S., the Pentagon worked out three offensive plans in 1969 when the spy plane EC-121 incident broke out; the plan of striking 12 places within the DPRK with nuclear weapons with the destructive force of 0.2-10kt TNT, the plan of destroying our air forces by striking sixteen airfields with 10-70kt nuclear weapons, and the one of neutralizing most of the striking ability of the DPRK.

At the time of Panmunjom incident in 1976, strategic bomber fleets flew to the skies close to the DMZ putting the world under nuclear fear, and a nuclear strategic bomber B-52 was put into the skies over Jik Islet in the west sea to conduct the training of dropping nuclear bombs in February 2014. It was also disclosed that the F-16 Fighter-Bomber fleet of the U.S. 8th combatant flight corps at the U.S. Air Force Base in Kunsan underwent the training of attacking the DPRK with B-61 nuclear bombs.

The U.S. Bush Administration labelled the DPRK as an ‘’Axis of Evil’’ at the State of the Union address on January 30, 2002, and made public the Nuclear Posture Review Report in March same year, which included our country in the target list of nuclear pre-emptive strike.

The report made the nuclear pre-emptive strike against us as an established fact by clarifying that the U.S. could deliver the nuclear pre-emptive strike against 7 countries including our country even if those countries did not possess nuclear weapons and the U.S. was not put under the direct nuclear attack.

Today, they are making a fuss about the announcement of our position to deliver a nuclear pre-emptive strike.

However, in fact 15 years ago, the U.S. first declared the nuclear pre-emptive strike against the DPRK. The U.S. policy of nuclear pre-emptive strike against the DPRK has remained completely unchanged even after that.

The U.S. Obama Administration excluded our country from the list of countries to which it will not use nuclear weapons in the Nuclear Posture Review Report released on April 6, 2010, clearly showing that nothing had changed from the previous policy pursued by Bush Administration which designated us as a target of nuclear pre-emptive strike and made it their business to make the nuclear threat against us.

The U.S., the biggest nuclear power as well as the only country to actually use nuclear weapons in real situation, established the policy of nuclear pre-emptive strike against us and persistently increased the nuclear threats to the extent that can no longer be overlooked.

That is why we had no other choice but choose the mode of nuclear pre-emptive strike. The U.S. has mobilized a huge amount of aggression troops together with various kinds of nuclear war equipment including “John C. Stennis” nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, B-52, B-2 nuclear strategic bomber, F-22A stealth fighters for the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle 16 joint military exercises, and it is even conducting the training of ‘’Decapitating Operation’’ in the way of fighting an actual war pursuant to the extremely risky OPLAN 5015. What’s more, the U.S. does not bother to disguise the fact that their recent launch of ICBM “Minuteman-3”, one of the major nuclear strike means, is aimed at the DPRK and the U.S. is running amuck to install the antiballistic missile system using our “threat” as a good excuse.

The U.S. labelled us as an “Axis of Evil” and designated us as a target of nuclear pre-emptive strike. At any moment the U.S. missiles or stealth bombers carrying nuclear weapons may attack us and their special forces may launch a surprise attack against our major facilities even at this very moment. This is the military situation on the Korean peninsula.

It is said that the deployment of THAAD in south Korea by the U.S. will destroy the strategic balance in the region, however, from our point of view, the balance of military strength on the Korean peninsula had already been destroyed long time ago due to the U.S. nuclear threat. Only thanks to our possession and continued development of self-defensive capability and strong nuclear deterrence, the balance could be achieved and barely maintained up to now.