Political Researcher on Essence of DPRK-U.S. Confrontation

Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- O Ryong Chol, a researcher of the World Politics Study Center of the DPRK Institute for International Studies, released a commentary titled "Essence of DPRK-U.S. Confrontation Should Be Looked Squarely" on Thursday.

The essence of the present situation on the Korean peninsula and the DPRK-U.S. confrontation has been seriously distorted due to the U.S. false propaganda against the DPRK and its followers' rhetoric about cooperation, the commentary noted.

The DPRK-U.S. confrontation is the one between the U.S. resorting to the extreme hostile policy and nuclear threat and blackmail for more than half a century and the DPRK striving hard to defend the sovereignty and rights to existence and development, it said, and went on:

Any literate man is quite well aware that the U.S. hostile policy and nuclear threat and blackmail forced the DPRK to the access to nuclear weapons and completion of a nuclear force.

However, the U.S. is pushing the DPRK-U.S. confrontation to that between the DPRK and the international community. Lurking behind this is a sinister intention to instill fear of nuclear weapons and term the DPRK's nuclear possession for self-defence as "an evil act" and thus deny the historical circumstances around the DPRK's access to nuclear weapons and its legitimacy and "demonize" the DPRK and thus isolate and stifle it.

Pro-American allies staking their fate on pursuance of the U.S., big countries seeking to promote their national interests and maintain the order-led by them through cooperation with the U.S., and some countries who mistake the pursuance of the U.S. as a global trend have irresponsibly chimed in with it. This has created a false feeling that the confrontation between the DPRK and the U.S. is the one between the DPRK and the international community.

Denial of the essence and attachment to false picture would not help evade catastrophic consequences and only belated regret will entail.

Those allies of the U.S. would be well advised to seriously ponder over what they can get and what they can lose from their pursuance of the U.S.

If they poke their nose in the DPRK-U.S. confrontation while touting "obligation as allies" even though they are not properly reading the essence of the situation on the Korean peninsula, they can never evade the same fate as that was met by Mussolini and Tojo who pursued fascist dictatorial lunatic Hitler in the past century. They should clearly remember this, though belatedly.

Big powers around the DPRK should see through the scheme of the falling "only superpower" and behave with discretion.

If they are big powers having influence on the world politics with responsibility, they should clearly face up to the situation in which the times when the U.S. used to threaten the DPRK with nukes have gone never to return and the war is being deterred on the Korean peninsula thanks to the nuclear weapons of the DPRK, and look for solution for settling the present situation.

Time has come for those countries taking advantage of the U.S. line without principle to come to their senses.

They should clearly understand that the U.S. struggle to convert the DPRK-U.S. confrontation into that between the DPRK and the international community is mainly aimed to inveigle other countries in the fight devoid of chance of victory and use them as cheap cannon fodder.

Things, called for by the "superpower" and supported by its followers, do not always become trend and any "resolution" of the UN Security Council adopted under the pressure of the "superpower" does never represent the "will of the international community".

The DPRK-U.S. confrontation can never come to an end unless the U.S. hostile policy and nuclear threat to the DPRK, its source, is terminated.

Squarely facing up to such essence of the DPRK-U.S. confrontation that has lasted century after century and behaving on a fair ground would be a proper way of defending justice and peace.

As was solemnly clarified in the DPRK government's statement, the DPRK's development of strategic weapons and their advancement are entirely to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country from the U.S. nuclear threat and blackmail policy and to safeguard the peaceful life of its people, and therefore, they do not pose threat to any country or region unless they infringe upon the state interests of the DPRK.

Therefore, any country, if it truly wants global peace and security, should clearly discern the present situation on the Korean peninsula and the trend of the times and exercise its influence and pressure on the U.S. so that it gives up the hostile policy toward the DPRK and nuclear threat and blackmail against it, before it becomes too late. -0