North Korean Researcher Argues that the DPRK was Forced to Pursue a Nuclear Program by U.S. Hostility
This article was contributed to NK News by the DPRK’s Institute of American Studies under the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. While it has been edited for content and to conform with most aspects of NK News style, the North Korean state media custom of lower-casing the first letters in “north” and “south” Korea – reflecting the view that they are legitimately one nation – has been maintained.
Throughout the centuries the Korean Peninsula has been drawn to a vortex of the vicious cycle of the escalation of the tension year after year.
There surely exists a problem on the Korean Peninsula, which has drawn the attentions and interests of the world and also made a number of politicians, policymakers and experts argue over the “solutions” for some decades.
The dominant viewpoint of most experts on Korean affairs is that the “the Korean Peninsula Issue is the North Korean Nuclear Issue” and the prospect of its solution seems vague like a “chicken and egg story”.
They are “differentiating” the Korean Peninsula by asserting that there should never be nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula and the possession of the nuclear weapons by the DPRK invites more tension on the Korean Peninsula.
In other words, those assertions are based on the logic that there is no problem with thousands of nuclear weapons and the delivery systems possessed by the existing nuclear powers and with those deployed in the place where the nuclear powers have interests in, while the nuclear weapons possessed by the DPRK for the purpose of the self-defense should never be allowed.
I have questions for those who look like setting great value on the “denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula” by “enthusiastically asserting” that “there should not be nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula under no circumstances”.
The dominant viewpoint of most experts on Korean affairs is that the “the Korean Peninsula Issue is the North Korean Nuclear Issue”
Why are you turning blind eyes to the fact that the U.S. frequently introduces the nuclear assets, including the nuclear aircraft carriers, nuclear strategic bombers, nuclear submarines into the vicinity of the Korean Peninsula, while not satisfied by the fact that they had already deployed more than 1,000 nuclear weapons of the various kinds in south Korea during the Cold War?
Why are you keeping silence on the fact that south Korea is under the “nuclear umbrella” provided by the U.S.?
Why could you not say a “flat No” to the U.S., the one which is most loudly talking about the keeping of the “nuclear non-proliferation system” and the observation of the international law, is turning the blind eye to the nuclear weapons and the test-fire of the ICBM of the countries in which it has interests, and to the fact that the U.S. committed the brutal armed aggression upon the countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya in defiance of the international law?
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