Press Statement of Spokesperson for DPRK

Foreign Ministry

Pyongyang, February 18 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea Tuesday released a press statement "The
anachronistic and futile attempt to challenge the inviolable sovereignty and the
prestige of the DPRK will entail self-destructive results".
The full text of the press statement is as follows:
Recently, the U.S. revealed again its sinister intention to put extreme political and
military pressure on the DPRK in collusion with its vassal states, while viciously
taking issue with the DPRK's just exercise of independent right with the international
security conference held in Munich of Germany as an occasion.
The U.S. secretary of State held a confab with the diplomatic authorities of Japan
and the ROK on February 15 to cook up and make public a "joint statement" full of
groundless mud-slinging and provocative rhetoric against the DPRK, talking about
the "complete denuclearization of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea".
The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK expresses serious concern over the adventuristic
and foolish act of the U.S., Japan and the ROK inciting collective confrontation and
conflict in the Korean peninsula and the region and strongly warns that any
provocation and threat of the hostile countries will face an overwhelming and
decisive counteraction.
The U.S. is pursuing an outdated and absurd plan of "denuclearization", which is
now getting more impossible and impracticable even in terms of practice and
conception from the actual point of view. As for the shortsighted "goal" of the U.S., it
is no more than the height of stupidity that arouses the astonishment of the world
people as if ignorant primitives ask the moderns to return to their society.
The U.S. is not yet awakened from the failed old dream of "denuclearization", the
phrase of which dimmed in memory at present. It is the official stand of the DPRK
government that it is not worth consideration to respond to such escapist stand of the
U.S., and we condemn and reject the U.S. action in the most resolute tone.
The U.S. will have to think itself first what kind of result the futile attempt of the
imperialist forces, maintained for the past three decades to unilaterally hurt the
security of the DPRK in disregard of the cause of origination and existence of the
nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula, has brought today.

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Explicitly speaking once again, to the DPRK nukes represent peace and sovereignty
and a means for legitimate self-defence entrusted by its Constitution as long as there
exists the hostile threat from the U.S. and its vassal forces.
If the U.S. continues to resort to the ineffective means of pressure against the DPRK,
failing to face up to the reality, the DPRK will continue to take a new opportunity for
the upward coordination of its strategic force and hold further favorable position in
the DPRK-U.S. conflicting structure.
The DPRK will as ever consistently adhere to the new line of bolstering up the
nuclear force clarified by the head of state and thoroughly control the threat and
blackmail of the U.S. and its vassal forces violating the former's sovereignty and
security interests, by making use of all its own political and military tools, and
perfectly attain its strategic goal. -0-