U.S. Scheme for Nuclear Supremacy Rebuked

 

Pyongyang, October 17 (KCNA) -- Kim Kwang Myong, a researcher of the Institute for Disarmament and Peace of the DPRK Foreign Ministry, issued the following article titled "U.S. pursuit of nuclear supremacy is root cause of strategic instability destroying world peace" on October 17:

At a time when peace and stability are seriously wrecked in Europe, the Middle East and other parts of the world due to the U.S. hegemonic moves and interference, American politicians again asserted that the U.S. should dominate the world with nuclear upper-hand, arousing great uneasiness and concern of the international community.

Some days ago, the U.S. congressional sub-committee on strategic forces termed the anti-U.S. independent countries' bolstering of self-defensive military capability "threat", and released an extremely risky report which calls for rounding off the U.S. mainland missile defense system and accelerating the modernization of nuclear forces to cope with it.

The U.S., the world's biggest nuclear weapons state and the world's first nuclear user which adopted the preemptive nuclear attack on other countries as its national policy, is talking about "nuclear threat" from someone. This is a sophism making profound confusing of right and wrong and just like a guilty party filing the suit first.

It is working hard to highlight the defensive nature, but the world recognizes that the U.S. mainland missile defense system is, in essence, a means for carrying out a nuclear war of aggression.

In the Cold War period, the U.S. put forward the "Strategic Defense Initiative", called the "Star Wars" plan, under the pretext of coping with the nuclear threat from the former Soviet Union. After the end of the Cold War, it unilaterally quit the ABM treaty (anti-ballistic missile system), which was concluded between the Soviet Union and the U.S., in 2001 under the judgment that the treaty was hindering its nuclear arms buildup.

Clear is the ulterior aim sought by the U.S. through its ceaseless updating of the interceptor missile system. Its aim is to make the shield stronger so that the spear can be used as safely as possible.

In this sense, the U.S. scheme to build the missile defense system in the mainland under the pretext of "nuclear threat from north Korea" is, in fact, part of the out-and-out offensive moves for bolstering up the nuclear force to make a preemptive nuclear strike at the DPRK easier.

The disruption of the strategic balance between offense and defense will cause conflicts.

The U.S. spearhead for carrying out its geopolitical hegemony strategy by blackmailing other countries with nukes is now being further sharpened, revealing its insidious appearance.

The U.S., giving up its "principle of no-first use of nuclear weapons", is planning to increase the stockpile of nuclear materials necessary for making strategic and tactical nuclear warheads and nuclear bombs in a geometric way. And it is hell-bent on modernizing the nuclear triad to carry them on.

In January 2017, the U.S. Department of Defense approved the development of next-generation Columbia-class strategic nuclear submarine, nd has been speeding up the work for replacing all Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarines with Columbia-class ones from 2027. Last December, it first opened the sixth-generation stealth nuclear strategic bomber, B-21 Raider, to the public.

In addition, the U.S. planned to replace Minuteman 3 with a new ICBM, LGM-35A Sentinel, from 2029 and announced the fact that the first ground test of the first-stage solid-fuel engine for the LGM-35A Sentinel was conducted in March last.

It is also desperately resorting to space militarization and spending astronomical funds on the development of latest weapons using laser technology.

This is proved by the facts that the U.S. put 10 military satellites into orbit in April in order to bolster the capability of tracking ultra-modern missiles including hypersonic missiles in the low earth orbit and that a person concerned of the Missile Defense Agency of the U.S. Defense Department said in August that the research of a directed-energy weapon for intercepting missiles of hostile countries finally came to fruition.

What merits a more serious attention is that the U.S. has deliberately escalated the situation by frequently dispatching nuclear strategic assets to hotspots including Northeast Asia and offering ultra-modern military hardware to its junior allies.

All the facts eloquently show who is threatening with nukes and who is threatened by whom.

The strengthened military capability for independence and self-defense can never be a pretext for bolstering up the nuclear force for aggression.

The U.S. arms buildup targeting nuclear powers is bound to bring about a due counteraction, and the world is plunging deeper into vortex of the "new Cold War", an era of new nuclear arms race.

The reality urgently requires the DPRK, which is standing in confrontation with the U.S. imperialism, the most aggressive nuclear war criminal force, to bolster up its self-defensive military capabilities for deterring a nuclear war both in quality and quantity and in a rapid way.

The international community should heighten vigilance against the U.S. reckless moves for nuclear arms buildup that undermine the basis of global peace and stability, and never remain a passive onlooker to them.

The DPRK will counter the hostile forces' any attempt for a nuclear war with its overwhelming and decisive response strategy and fulfill its mission as a responsible nuclear weapons state for reliably defending peace and security in the region and the rest of the world.