Press Statement of Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry

Pyongyang, August 31 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea released the following press statement on Monday:

We can witness the U.S. stand of confrontation with the DPRK being more clearly expressed recently.

A spokesperson for the Department of State and other officials concerned of the U.S. administration on August 26 clarified the stand that there has been no change in the U.S. policy toward the DPRK, asserting that the U.S. remains committed to the complete denuclearization of the DPRK.

It also more openly betrayed its extremely sinister and vicious hostile attempt to tarnish the image of our country and create its internal instability, talking about someone's "human rights abuses".

Meanwhile, the U.S. military announced its plan to stage the U.S.-Japan-ROK multi-domain joint military exercises Freedom Edge, which constitute a threat to the DPRK and regional countries, as scheduled, and is perpetrating air espionage and other anti-DPRK military provocations one after another.

The Trump administration has thus fully reconfirmed its invariable hostile policy to wantonly violate the sovereignty, political system and security interests of the DPRK through the "denuclearization" racket, "human rights" smear campaign and military threat.

The U.S. hostility toward the DPRK, manifested in its stand of confrontation that gets clearer in terms of rhetoric and behavior, has become a root cause of pushing the tensions on the Korean peninsula to a more dangerous level and escalating the structural instability of the region.

It is pointless to expect any detente in the region, given the grave situation where the U.S. persistent hostile policy toward the DPRK is evolving in a more dangerous way.

Our nukes serve as an absolute guarantee for defending its sovereignty and the nuclear weapons in possession of the DPRK and their sustained bolstering are the most responsible and correct option for ensuring regional peace and security.

This can be fully explained by the unstable security environment brought to the region by the U.S. nuclear posture transforming into more offensive one and Japan's rearmament and the ROK's arms buildup being accelerated in the framework of the U.S.-Japan-ROK triangular military cooperation system.

The present position of the DPRK, fixed on a permanent basis by its supreme state law, can neither be weakened nor be diluted by the U.S. repeated expression of stand on "denuclearization".

To absurdly stick to the past can never get a grip on reality or deter the future.

The DPRK will be more resolute and clear in its exercise of sovereignty to defend the supreme interests of its national security, based on the premise that the U.S. policy toward the DPRK never changes and there will be no change in the future, too.

There is no change in our policy toward the U.S. to respond to its invariable hostile policy with the toughest stand to the last. -0-