April 17, 2013 – NORTH KOREA - A
spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry has said the U.S. is “wholly
responsible” for escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula,
passionately arguing that the secretive state will refuse to give up on
its bid to become a nuclear power. Referring to Secretary of State John
Kerry’s calls for open talks with the North, the statement said:
“Recently U.S. high-ranking officials are vying with each other to talk
about dialogue. This is nothing but a crafty ploy to evade the blame for
the tension on the eve of a war by pretending to refrain from military
actions and stand for dialogue. It is none other than the U.S which sparked off a vicious cycle of tension, pursuant to its hostile policy to stifle 
the
DPRK by force of arms, and pushed the situation on the Korean Peninsula
to the worst phase.” The statement follows a thinly veiled attack on
the United States from China’s defense ministry yesterday, who blamed
the country for increasing tensions in the Asia-Pacific by ramping up
its military presence and alliances in the region. Days after Kerry
visited Beijing over tensions on the Korean peninsula, China revealed it
is uneasy with what the US has called the “rebalancing” of forces as
Washington winds down the war in Afghanistan and renews its attention in
the Asia-Pacific. The North has declared it has needed to toughen up
its defenses to deal with a hostile West bent on undermining it.
“Dialogue should be based on the principle of respecting sovereignty and
equality – this is the DPRK’s consistent stand,” the official statement
said. “Genuine dialogue is possible only at the phase where the DPRK
has acquired nuclear deterrent enough to defuse the U.S. threat of
nuclear war unless the U.S. rolls back its hostile policy and nuclear
threat and blackmail against the former. This time when the DPRK has
been exposed to the U.S. direct and substantial threat of nuclear
attack, it keenly felt the need to bolster up its nuclear deterrence
both in quality and quantity. The DPRK will escalate its military
countermeasures for self-defense unless the U.S. ceases its nuclear war
drills and withdraws all its war hardware for aggression,” the statement
concluded.” The North also urged its people to be prepared for decisive
action to deal with the insults carried out by South Korean
anti-communist groups against its leadership, Pyongyang’s state media
outlet said today. –Express UK
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