Pyongyang, September 29 (KCNA) -- The Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on September 27 issued a memorandum to disclose the truth and danger of nuclear proliferation by the U.S., which has irresponsibly neglected its disarmament duty as a nuclear weapons state, plunging the international nuclear non-proliferation system into the worst crisis.
The U.S. is the chief culprit of the vertical proliferation bringing a global nuclear nightmare, the memorandum said, and went on:
In July 1945, more than 80 years ago, the U.S. raised nuclear mushroom clouds on the desert of New Mexico State for the first time in the human history and, since then, has made no scruple of resorting to all kinds of means and methods to lead the preemptive nuclear possession to a permanent nuclear monopoly.
It conducted 1 032 rounds of nuclear tests from 1945 to 1994 and had more than 32 500 nuclear attack means when the Cold War was at its height. The fact and figures go to prove eloquently how tremendous disaster the human history might face due to the nukes in the hands of the "evil empire".
The U.S., which had overestimated its exclusive nuclear advantage until the 1950s, resorted to a craftier artifice to gain a nuclear preponderance behind the curtain of nuclear disarmament in the mid-1960s, because of its financial burden caused by excessive military expenditure and apprehension for the Soviet Union's nuclear superiority as the world's second nuclear weapons state.
The U.S. is planning to resume its nuclear explosion tests under the pretext of "fair competition" while building up a world public opinion about "nuclear tests" in other countries. Such scheme is motivated only by its intention to plunge its strategic rivals into the whirlpool of nuclear arms race and realize the radical acceleration of its nuclear power buildup.
The modernization of the U.S. nuclear force is now being promoted at a level reminiscent of the Cold War period in its width and depth, under the keynote policy of the present U.S. administration advocating "America first" and "peace through strength".
Recently, the U.S. military officially recognized its possession of "space control weapons in orbit". This is a manifestation of its dangerous attempt to secure outer space for operation more favorable for strategic nuclear attack on enemy states, as a prolonged policy of dominating space.
What should not be overlooked is the fact that the U.S. is conducting in a more frantic manner its nuclear force buildup and modernization to ensure the absolute nuclear superiority in the "four-point operational sphere" involving the land, sea, air and space.
The U.S. has resorted to drawing up a new nuclear strategy, which envisages the use of tactical nuclear weapons by drastically lowering the door of restriction on the use of nukes. The fact shows that such nuclear weapons are not merely "deterrence means" of provision for the purpose of "removing threats" from the enemy states, but weapons for actual war to be used on battle sites in case of emergency.
The memorandum disclosed that the U.S. is the chieftain of horizontal proliferation disturbing the international nuclear non-proliferation system.
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, signed in 1968, stipulates the commitment of each nuclear weapons state and non-nuclear weapons state to non-proliferation, the right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and the promotion of negotiations on nuclear disarmament, thus assuming the mission as a cornerstone of the international non-proliferation system.
But, the U.S. has openly handed over nuclear weapons technology to its vassal forces, going against the core provisions of the NPT and made the nuclear sharing with NATO member states an uncontrollable object of the treaty. Today it is massively deploying its nuclear attack means in foreign territories under the pretext of offering "nuclear umbrella" and "extended deterrence".
Moreover, the U.S. cooked up "nuclear operation guidelines" with the ROK and put the operation of "Nuclear Consultative Group" on a regular basis. And then it made a commitment that it would include nukes in the provision of "extended deterrence" to Japan. The facts vividly go to prove the true colors of the U.S.-Japan-ROK triangular military cooperation system which is evolving into a nuclear alliance under the leading role of the U.S.
Israel's possession of nukes and several pro-American countries' efforts to arm themselves with nuclear weapons, which are still arousing international concern and fear, are a product of the U.S patronage, connivance and backing from A to Z.
What should not be overlooked is that the U.S. is scheming to turn the AUKUS into a world's biggest nuclear submarine alliance by drawing Japan, the ROK, New Zealand, Canada and other allies into it.
The U.S. approval of the ROK's possession of nuclear submarines is another proof of the AUKUS-style proliferation with nuclear submarines as a vehicle, which is a dangerous development adding new instability to the political and military security environment in the Asia-Pacific region.
If the reckless nuclear proliferation acts of the U.S. are allowed to go on, the "Pandora's box" will be completely opened and humankind will face a terrible nuclear disaster.
The present geopolitical situation, in which the international nuclear order has reached the state of total collapse due to the U.S. radical nuclear arms buildup and undisguised nuclear proliferation, requires the DPRK to play a more positive role in defending the world peace and ensuring the global strategic security, the memorandum said, and went on:
The DPRK's option of action as a responsible nuclear weapons state will be strictly based on the grave reality in which no international body or treaty is deterring the U.S. from bolstering up its nuclear power and going on its nuclear proliferation.
This will be a clear criterion in the DPRK's efforts to protect the national security interests and the regional security environment. -0-
