Spokesman for DPRK FM Gives Answer to KCNA
A
spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a
question put by KCNA on September 20 as regards the U.S. announcement of
a plan to build a new radar base in Japan to cope with the "DPRK's
threat of missile attack":
U.S.
Defense Secretary Panetta met on Monday his Japanese counterpart in
Tokyo and held a joint press conference at which they announced they
agreed to build another radar base in the southern part of Japan to cope
with "north Korea's threat of missile attack."
Disclosed
earlier was a plan worked out by the U.S. and Japan to build a missile
shield in Asia by building a new radar base in Southeast Asia and link
it with the missile interceptor systems deployed on the ground and in
waters.
The
U.S. decision to build the radar base in Japan is obviously targeting
big countries in Eurasia as part of its moves to round off the regional
missile defense system. This will only strain the regional situation and
escalate the arms race.
Over
the last decades the U.S. has steadily increased the military spending
by misleading the public opinion with a trite psychological warfare that
it is building a missile shield against the potential enemies' missile
strikes. By doing so, it has brought big profits to the munitions
monopolies and, at the same time, worked hard to establish the system of
its military domination in various parts of the world.
In fact, it is impossible to intercept something with a missile shield.
What should not be overlooked is that Panetta openly declared the new radar is targeted against the DPRK, not China.
The
U.S. military chief disclosed the plan at a time when the U.S.
diplomatic chief lost no chance to let loose rhetoric that the U.S. has
no hostile intent on the DPRK. This is tantamount to the U.S. total
denial of its words and open admission of its hostility towards the
DPRK.
Given
the fact that the U.S., the world's biggest possessor of nukes and
missiles, is stepping up its arms build-up against the DPRK, it is quite
natural for it to steadily bolster up its nuclear deterrent.
The U.S. attitude compels the DPRK to become a more powerful nuclear weapons state as befitting the "rival" of the U.S.
Rodong Sinmun