North Korea says bolstering self-defensive capabilities to deter rivals. US nuclear-powered submarine’s recent access to the Korean Peninsula. US and South Korean militaries’ plan to enforce a large-scale war drill become good reasons \”for the DPRK’s bolstering of its corresponding defence capabilities,\” says the Chief of the Policy Office of the country’s defence ministry. The United States is bringing a serious threat to the security environment of the Korean peninsula and the rest of the world, says the chief. The only way to remove it is to thoroughly abandon its military threat and hostile policy toward independent and sovereign states, he says. The U.S. claims that the DPRK has secured the capability to strike the whole of North America with nuclear weapons. The DPRK calls the US assertions \”a brigandish sophism like a guilty party filing the suit first\” The U.,S. and South Korea are engaged in a major war drill in the region, the chief adds. The US military is trying to build up public opinion about the non-existent ‘threat’ from the DPRK and justify the adventurous military ambition, he adds.
