DPRK warns to strengthen nuclear deterrent (Xinhua) Updated: 2005-04-09 09:22
A senior military official of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
(DPRK) on Friday warned that his country will strengthen its self-defensive
nuclear deterrent in face of the US moves to stifle it.
"The US persistent hostile policy toward the DPRK will only prompt Pyongyang
to bolster its self-defensive nuclear deterrent,"said Kim Yong-chun, Chief of
the General Staff of the Korean People's Army, at a national meeting marking the
12th anniversary of Kim Jong-il's election as chairman of the National Defense
Committee.
He accused that the United States should be chiefly blamed for the present
deadlock of the six-party talks, saying that the United States is working hard
to bring down the system in the DPRK and is staging large-scale war exercises
aimed at invading the DPRK.
"If the US imperialists dare to launch a war of aggression on the peninsula,
the army and people of the DPRK will turn out as one in a just war and
mercilessly wipe out the aggressors and win a final victory in the stand-off
with the US," he said.
Pyongyang announced on Feb. 10 that it has already had nuclear
arms.
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