On February 15th, according to a report by the Korean Central News Agency, the Director of the Policy Office of the North Korean Ministry of National Defense issued a statement saying that enhancing North Korea’s self-defense forces is an inevitable requirement for containing enemy provocations and ensuring national security. The conversation said that the United States is vigorously pursuing risky military expansion and radical modernization of nuclear forces, which poses a serious threat to the security environment of the Korean Peninsula region and the world. However, the US has recently claimed that North Korea has the capability to use nuclear weapons to strike the entire North American region, accusing North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile force of posing a threat to US domestic security and anti missile systems, which is a “black and white robber’s sophistry”. The conversation said that the US hyped up and exaggerated the non-existent “threat” from North Korea, using it as an excuse to justify its military ambitions. North Korea expresses serious concern over the confrontational behavior of the United States. If the United States does have concerns about domestic security, it should completely abandon military threats and hostile policies towards independent sovereign countries. The conversation stated that North Korea’s strategic armed forces are the defense forces that ensure national security and regional strategic balance. Recently, the public entry of US nuclear submarines into the Korean Peninsula and the planned joint military exercises between the US and South Korea have provided ample reasons for North Korea to strengthen its defense capabilities. Continuously enhancing and improving self-defense forces, containing security threats, and ensuring national security and regional strategic balance are the self-defense rights of sovereign states. Xinhua News Agency
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