Pyongyang, September 16 (KCNA) — A spokesman for the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK clarified the following stand through KCNA on Wednesday as regards the fact that the U.S. military and the ROK puppet army have more openly revealed their scheme for military confrontation with the DPRK recently, talking about response to someone’s “WMD threat”:
The U.S. forces and the warmongers of the ROK puppet army on Sept. 10 held a meeting of the WMD response committee, at which they agreed to set up an information-sharing system to cope with “potential WMD attack” by the DPRK, enhance the joint counteraction capability and intensify joint counteraction training.
What should not be overlooked is that the U.S. and the ROK called for strengthened joint defense posture, the keynote of which is to use military muscle against the DPRK, hyping someone’s “WMD threat”.
This is an open declaration of confrontation to make the use of nuclear and biochemical weapons against the DPRK in case of contingency on the Korean peninsula a fait accompli and accelerate the war preparations for its execution. It is also a grave move of aggravating the situation to push the danger of the use of WMDs to extremes.
The U.S. and the ROK got familiar with the procedures of “WMD response” during the recent large-scale joint military exercises Freedom Shield. This time they agreed to intensify the training involving nuclear and biochemical weapons again. This fact goes to prove that the enemy’s plan to use WMDs has entered an extremely reckless phase.
The U.S. stated in its past “strategy for coping with WMDs” that it would establish a joint force capable of fighting in a nuclear and biochemical warfare environment and increase its investment in the research and development of WMDs under the pretext of “threat” from the DPRK and other sovereign states. This provides full explanation for the confrontational design and ultimate goal pursued by them.
In recent years, the U.S. has set up a network of 30 biological weapons research institutes in the territory of Ukraine and established biological laboratories in its military bases in the ROK. Furthermore, it has been intensifying military biological activities and biochemical weapons development in over 200 different parts of the world. It has also specified in the bill on national defence right for fiscal 2026 that it would spend hundreds of millions of dollars for the development, test, maintenance and operation of biochemical weapons.
Such situation goes to prove that the rumor about someone’s “WMD threat” spread by the U.S. is nothing but an ill-intended pretext to cover up its development and proliferation of WMDs.
Such a threat of WMD attack and use by the enemy against the DPRK may be considered a crucial security challenge that requires the latter to invoke the relevant provision of the law on the state nuclear force policy.
I recommend that the U.S. correctly interprets the meaning of the invoking of the relevant provision and accepts it as a grave warning.
The armed forces of the DPRK will always keep track of the new military attempts of the U.S. and its allied forces, regularly assessing their threat to its national security. -0-
