calendar>>July 27. 2009 Juche 98
Story of "Chain Reaction" Spread by U.S. Blasted
Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) -- The U.S. is now spreading in countries around the DPRK the rumor that "chain reaction" may occur in Japan and south Korea unless the DPRK's access to nukes is checked. This is nothing but sheer speculation as it is departure from reality, says Rodong Sinmun Monday in a signed commentary.

When a country is exposed to very potential and serious nuclear threats and when it finds no other way to cope with them, it is compelled to have access to nukes as its last resort, the commentary notes, citing facts to prove that Japan and south Korea have long been under the U.S. "nuclear umbrella". The commentary goes on:

Japan and south Korea are provided with the U.S. "nuclear umbrellas," while keeping huge U.S. troops in their lands. Therefore, one can safely say that they are practically armed with nuclear weapons.

But quite different is the case with the DPRK.

The DPRK has never been provided with any nuclear umbrella by outsiders to cope with the U.S. nuclear threat.

Only danger of war will increase when one of the two hostile parties is armed with nuclear weapons or protected by a "nuclear umbrella" while the other remains defenseless, having none of them.

The DPRK's access to nukes helped keep a nuclear balance in Northeast Asia even in the least, thus making it possible to deter a war.

The arithmetic logic that Japan and south Korea may go nuclear because the DPRK has had access to nukes is an expression of ignorance of those who are utterly insensitive to the reality. This is only part of a clumsy psychological warfare launched against the DPRK's access to nukes, concludes the commentary.

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