North Korea warns US of escalation
In response to the deployment of American strategic military equipment in the region, including nuclear warheads and B-52 bombers, North Korea warned Washington of a preemptive strike. The DPRK has threatened a preemptive strike by the United States, which, according to Pyongyang, intends to start a nuclear war by transferring its “strategic assets” to the Korean Peninsula. A publication by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) noted the dispatch of the US B-52 strategic bomber to the south of the Korean Peninsula, the first landing in South Korea of the fifth-generation fighter F-22 Raptor, as well as plans to conduct joint exercises for the first time between the air forces of the United States, South Korea and Japan.
“These are deliberate machinations to unleash a nuclear war by the United States, which is caught in trouble inside and outside the country,” the statement says. “Although the United States considers violence a means of solving [problems] and is trying to seek a way out to revive [its influence] on the Korean Peninsula, its attempts cannot be realized,” the agency writes. At the same time, as the commentary says, Washington is “spinning the flywheel of nuclear war” by transferring “all nuclear strategic assets, so-called nuclear aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and strategic bombers” to the region in order to “calm down the South Korean puppets.” Pyongyang regards these actions as “military actions in the nature of a nuclear preventive attack aimed at the physical elimination” of the DPRK, KCNA writes. “The United States is aware that the Korean Peninsula is legally in a state of war, and strategic assets transferred to the enemy zone become the first target for destruction,” the state agency noted in this regard.
“That page of history when the right to a preventive strike remained the “monopoly property” of the United States has been turned over. Since the United States and the gangsters of the Republic of Korea challenged our republic to nuclear war, there will be our reciprocal choice,” KCNA emphasizes and recalls that the DPRK “has legislated Nuclear Forces Policy, which authorizes the necessary steps" if it is determined that a state has been "under attack" with nuclear weapons. In this regard, Pyongyang recommended that the United States “understand as quickly as possible” that the more often they miscalculate, the closer the “dangerous moment for the American continent” is. In September, the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK adopted constitutional amendments that establish the status of nuclear forces and the policy of their accelerated development in order to guarantee the country's right to exist.
Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)
