New Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter, at his written testimony submitted to a recent confirmation hearing of the Armed Services Committee of the Senate held a few days before he took office, noted that the DPRK "is keen on conducting such acts of destabilizing the regional situation as bolstering up its nuclear and ballistic missile capacity and launching cyber attacks" to pose "direct threat" to the U.S. and its allies.

The chairperson of the International Relations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, the chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the assistant secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and others in the U.S. political camp and military were all out to echo the above-said "threat".

Rodong Sinmun Saturday in a commentary terms this a hysteric fit of the war maniacs hell-bent on escalating confrontation of social systems, being seized by inveterate repugnancy toward the DPRK.

This is also a revelation of their ulterior design to continuously push the situation on the Korean peninsula to an extreme pitch to foment north-south confrontation and thus catch fish in troubled waters, notes the commentary, adding:

It is an inveterate evil practice of the U.S. to pull up others over their non-existent "threat" to it if they incur its disfavor, ignite wars of aggression against them, put under its control their resources and batten on them.

So, it is quite natural for the U.S. to oft-repeat about "threat" from the DPRK.

The U.S. loudly talked about the "threat" when the DPRK was a non-nuclear state. Still it is repeating the trumpeting after the latter ranked itself among nuclear weapons states.

The U.S. stereo-typed trumpeting about "threat" reminds one of rabid dogs barking with fear at the moon.

No matter how desperately the U.S. barks about "threat" from the DPRK, it can never evade its responsibility for having escalated the situation on the Korean peninsula.