Rodong Sinmun Wednesday observes in a signed commentary in this regard:

Lurking behind the U.S. promise to provide "nuclear umbrella" to its "allies" is a criminal scenario to forward-deploy more nuclear weapons in south Korea, Japan and other areas around the Korean Peninsula and spark off a nuclear war there on a legitimate basis under the pretext of "military threat" from the DPRK.

The U.S. description of the DPRK's nuclear test as a "threat" to its "security" and "allies" is nothing but sheer sophism intended to misinterpret justice as injustice and vice versa.

It is an open secret that the U.S. has hastened the preparations for a nuclear war against the DPRK on the basis of a secret agreement made with south Korea and Japan long ago. They are now contemplating carrying out the nuclear war against the DPRK on a legitimate basis under the pretext of the latter's "military threat." The U.S. dispatched a nuclear-powered carrier flotilla to the Pacific, while conducting a malignant smear campaign over the DPRK's nuclear test. And now it is vociferous about the provision of "nuclear umbrella" to the said countries under the signboard of "protecting its allies." Here in lies the danger of the U.S. scenario.

The "nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation" touted by the U.S. are nothing but a lie and deception. It is the height of sarcasm for the U.S. to hide its true colors as the chieftain of nuclear war and disguise itself as an apostle of "peace."

No matter how loudly the U.S. may talk about the nuclear disarmament under a veil, it can never conceal its disgusting nature as a nuclear hawk keen to brandish a nuclear stick.

The U.S. reckless racket for putting pressure on the DPRK over its nuclear issue would only serve as catalyst compelling the latter to take measures for bolstering up its nuclear deterrent for self-defence.

The U.S. would be well advised to give up its camouflaged peace artifice to disarm someone through the trumpeting of the hypocritical "nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation" and discard its nuclear war scenario.