DPRK Is Dignified and Independent Nuclear Power: North Korea

Minju Joson, north Korean paper, Wednesday lauds that Pyongyang recently had a successful test of H-bomb for ICBM and therefore, it is able to resolutely repel any aggression forces in any part of the world and reliably defend peace and security in the Korean Peninsula and the region with the ultimate nuclear deterrence.

The people in the world wonder how the small country could possess nuclear weapons and has joined the front rank of nuclear-armed nations.

As everyone knows, the US incessantly threatened the DPRK with nuclear weapons. During the Korean war in the early 1950s, it threatened the country, saying that it was ready to drop A-bombs; after the war it constantly levied nuclear blackmail on the country by deploying various kinds of tactical nuclear weapons numbering more than 1000 in south Korea and staging nuclear war games; and it rallied its allies to impose all sorts of economic sanctions and kick up a “human rights” racket aimed at checking the country’s efforts to build itself into an economic power and improve its people’s standard of living and at achieving “regime change” in the country.

Since the word hostility was made an entry in the dictionary, no hostility was so deep-rooted, so brigandish and so tenacious as the US hostility against the DPRK was.

Not satisfied with its unprecedented political isolation, economic blockade and military pressure against the DPRK, the US attempted to plunge the country into a nuclear holocaust because the latter’s ideology and system differed from its own and that the latter was not obedient to its own aggressive ambition.

The one and only measure for a country to safeguard one’s own right to existence and defend peace and security from such nuclear threat is the possession of nuclear weapons.

As the Korean war ended with the concluding of an armistice agreement, the two belligerents are still technically at war, and as the US, the largest nuclear power in the world, presented threat for aggression, the DPRK had no other option but to possess nuclear weapons. For this self-defensive country, it was a legitimate right and a measure for which no one can pick a quarrel with it.

However, one cannot possess nuclear weapons easily even though it wishes.

What struck the international society with admiration was the DPRK’s thoroughgoing spirit of independence with which it did not compromise with the unjust and arbitrary behaviours of the great powers.

To look back, it was a great misfortune for humankind that A-bomb was built first by the imperialists and the US emerged as the largest nuclear state.

When the nuclear test in July 1945 proved a success, President Truman said that from that day the world would be placed under the foot of the US. Afterwards, the US resorted to high-handedness and arbitrariness by threatening with nuclear weapons the countries and nations which were hindering the realization of its strategy for world hegemony.

It was not only the imperialist countries that were of the view that to possess nuclear weapons was the way to dominate the world. Even some big countries that were supposed to aspire after progress and socialism were not happy with the small countries strengthening their independent national capabilities and interfered in their internal affairs, demanding that they enjoy “stability” and “peace” under their own umbrella.

The outcome was just the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1968, which recognizes some privileged countries as nuclear states and forbids other countries from possessing nuclear weapons. It was none other than an instrument for sanctions in the name of international agreement in the hands of the nuclear states.

Obey or die—this is political ethics advocated by the US and other big countries and a mode of existence they impose on small countries.

In fact, some countries abandoned their already-made nuclear weapons under the pressure of the nuclear powers.

However, the DPRK was never of that type. It had intense consciousness of independence, said in the international arena what it had to say with its own faith and pluck and continued to advance forward along the road of its own choice.

With such faith and pluck, it replied to the naked US threat of preemptive nuclear strike with the possession of its own nuclear weapons, and continuously developed its nuclear deterrent both in quality and in quantity to cope with the ever-increasing nuclear threat by the US. To check this progress, the US, other nuclear powers in collusion with it and the countries that thought they could not survive without catering to the big countries tried in vain to make the DPRK kneel down by imposing “sanctions” and “blockade” upon it.

In this situation, the DPRK succeeded in its first H-bomb test in January this year.

It was an epoch-making event in the world history.

The test neutralized at a stroke the nuclear superiority and supremacy of the great powers and thus put an end to the history of nuclear weapons filled with injustice. Opened wide was the avenue for wiping out the unfair international order by which small countries, overwhelmed for long by the arbitrariness of big countries, had to suffer subordination, submission, misfortune and sacrifice, and for building a fair and just, new world.

The broad international society supports the DPRK’s possession of nuclear weapons from the bottom of their hearts.

After the H-bomb test in the DPRK, representatives of the developing countries to the UN said, “It would be better that the DPRK becomes a permanent member state of the UNSC and represents our stand.”