Much upset by the developments, the United States on April 11 reportedly stated in public of its intention to seek a negotiated and diplomatic settlement of the situation.

It may be a political decision out of its calculation that it can never bring the Democratic People's Republic of Korea into submission with military threats and "sanctions". But matter is that the U.S. raised preconditions for starting dialogue.

The preconditions include a stop to "provocative" remarks which the DPRK has so far been engaged in and a demonstration of its will to realize denuclearization and suspend missile launch.

There is a Korean saying which goes "Thief calls stop thief".

It is none other than the U.S which sparked off a vicious cycle of tension, pursuant to its hostile policy to stifle the DPRK by force of arms, and pushed the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the worst phase.

The U.S. called the DPRK's recent working satellite launch a "missile launch" and cooked up UN Security Council's "resolutions on sanctions", making extra-large provocative moves against the DPRK by mobilizing colonial war servants.

Still worse, it has run amuck for military provocation with nuclear strike means against the DPRK for nearly two months.

The U.S. brought to Key Resolve and Foal Eagle war drills super-large nuclear-powered carrier task forces, nuclear-powered submarines, guided-missile destroyers and even F-22 Stealth fighter formation. Furthermore it secretly dispatched nuclear-powered carrier Stennis, operational in the Indian Ocean, and Nimitz, anchored at a base of its mainland, to waters adjacent to the Korean Peninsula.

After all, the Korean Peninsula and areas around it have turned into the world's biggest hotspot beset with the danger of a nuclear war in view of the density of the deployment of nuclear force.

As seen above, the U.S. is the very one that has stepped up a military provocation in an all-round way, which now has reached the most dangerous phase of nuclear blackmail. Such being the case, it termed the DPRK a "provoker".

At present, more than 280 reporters are flying into the south of the Korean Peninsula from different parts of the world. This suggests the gravity of the tense situation on the peninsula, the focus of world attention.

If they are true media persons based on objectivity and impartiality, they will come to clearly know that the U.S. rhetoric about "dialogue" is deceptive one aimed to mislead the world public.