U.S. Reckless Act of Increasing Danger of

Nuclear War

Pyongyang, February 2 (KCNA) -- Ri Ji Song, a researcher of the Society for
International Politics Study in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,
released an article "Reckless moves increasing the danger of a nuclear war".
Its full text is as follows:
The fact that the U.S. will deploy again its nuclear weapons, which it withdrew
from Britain 15 years ago, has been opened to public, sparking off worldwide
sensation.
The U.S. and Britain take a vague stand on the planned redeployment of nuclear
weapons, asserting that it is their long-standing policy to neither confirm nor deny
the existence of nuclear weapons at a specified military base. However, media
and experts are making the U.S. redeployment of nuclear weapons a fait
accompli, in connection with the fact that high-ranking figures of Britain and
NATO have recently called for coping with a potential war with Russia.
In actuality, the facility expansion and reinforcement work have already started at
the Lakenheath Air Force Base in the UK, where the U.S. nuclear bombs of B61
series were stocked in the past and F-35 fighters capable of carrying the B61-12
are deployed. And a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Defense has
reportedly recognized the fact.
In this regard, the international community is expressing serious concern that the
U.S. moves for bolstering up nuclear force in the European region will further chill
the relations between the West and Russia and increase the danger of a nuclear
war in the region.
The U.S. nuclear arms buildup in Europe has not started today.
The U.S. worked out a plan to replace the outdated B61 nuclear bombs deployed
in Europe with the latest version B61-12 at least 10 years ago, and spent more
than 10 billion U.S. dollars on this project.
Pentagon conducted ground test and simulated flight test already in 2013 and air
dropping tests by F-15, F-16, F-35 and other types of fighters from 2015. And it

announced that they would start of the serial production of those bombs in the
fiscal 2021 and complete their deployment for action by 2024.
In November last year, the U.S. officially approved the use of B61-12 in military
operations and included Britain in its list of nuclear weapons storage sites. And
the U.S. deputy secretary of Defense made a tour of the Lakenheath Air Force
Base to learn about its infrastructure facilities, revealing their scheme to redeploy
nuclear weapons in the UK.
The U.S. is going to redeploy its nuclear weapons 15 years after it had to
withdraw them, modernized and maintained for more than 50 years, because of
the anti-war and anti-nuclear atmosphere in the UK in 2008. This poses a serious
threat to international peace and security.
It is the sinister intention of the U.S. to establish a global deployment network of
nukes, regarding them as a means for maintaining its hegemony, and thus
contain its "rivals" and, at the same time, hold more tightly the lifeline of its allies
under the pretext of "bolstering up its deterrence".
What is more dangerous is the fact that the U.S. is mulling deploying the tactical
nuclear weapons including B61-12 in the Asia-Pacific region, too.
It is well evidenced by the fact that the U.S. and the ROK are frequently making
reckless remarks that as B-2 stealth nuclear strategic bombers capable of
carrying and operating B61-12 have been deployed on Guam, it can be used for
any future operation in the Korean peninsula.
These moves are turning the Asia-Pacific region, where the world's nuclear
weapons states are aggregate densely, into the world's biggest hotspot with
constant danger of a nuclear war outbreak.
The U.S. expands the sphere of deployment of the latest nuclear bombs at a time
when military confrontation among countries and forces is escalating and the
international situation is getting ever-more acute in different parts of the world.
This more clearly shows the U.S. true colors as the chief criminal of nuclear
proliferation, mastermind of nuclear arms race and chieftain of nuclear war
outbreak.

All the facts go to prove that the DPRK's efforts for bolstering up the nuclear war
deterrence are an indispensable contribution to resolutely frustrating the U.S. and
its allies' undisguised provocations on a worldwide scale and maintaining the
strategic balance and stability of the world.
The international community should heighten vigilance against the U.S. criminal
moves for deploying its nuclear weapons in other countries and more bitterly
condemn them as they are driving the whole world closer into the threshold of a
nuclear war. -0-