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US Urged to Withdraw Its Nuclear Weapons
Pyongyang, December 16 (KCNA) -- The United States should withdraw its huge nuclear weapons from Western European countries and south Korea, urges Rodong Sinmun Wednesday in a signed commentary.

The U.S. is so shameful as to claim that the nukes in Western European countries are not related to the NPT as they were deployed before the conclusion of the treaty, the commentary says, and goes on:

The U.S. stockpile of its nukes in those countries is in breach of the spirit of the NPT the keynote of which is the elimination and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.

The U.S. deployment of nukes in Western European countries diametrically runs counter to the trend of the present times toward disarmament.

If the U.S. truly stood for nuclear disarmament, it should have taken steps to withdraw the nuclear weapons from Western Europe and various other regions of the world.

If the U.S. stops the production of nukes and opts for eliminating them, other nuclear weapons states will head for nuclear disarmament and then, this will decrease the world's nuclear arsenals and, furthermore, defuse the danger of a nuclear war.

The Korean Peninsula is the region fraught with the greatest nuclear threat and the biggest danger of a nuclear war in the world.

The rumor about the non-existent "threat" from the DPRK spread by the U.S. bellicose forces is nothing but an artifice to forward-deploy more nukes and other armed forces for aggression in south Korea and its vicinity and ignite a nuclear war against the DPRK all of a sudden.

The U.S. is fostering nuclear proliferation while applying double standards in dealing with the nuclear issue.

The U.S. should show the world in practice that its commitment to "building a world without nuclear weapons" is not an empty talk.

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