Press Statement of Minister of National Defence of DPRK

 

Pyongyang, July 20 (KCNA) -- Kang Sun Nam, minister of National Defense 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.