Press Statement of Minister of National Defence of

DPRK

Pyongyang, July 20 (KCNA) -- Kang Sun Nam, minister of National Defence 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. -0-