Rodong Sinmun Saturday in an article dismisses these assertions as sheer sophism.

The paper goes on:

Fragile ceasefire persists on the peninsula entirely because of the U.S. vicious hostile policy towards the DPRK and its acts of disturbing peace.

It is illogical for the U.S. to grumble about the DPRK's nuclear deterrent for defusing the danger of war on the peninsula and preserving peace in the region.

Every issue requires order of its settlement.

What is urgent and prerequisite to averting a war and ensuring peace on the peninsula is to put the earliest possible end to the fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and the DPRK and build lasting peace-keeping mechanism. This is the only way of ensuring peace on the peninsula.

It is impossible to wipe out distrust in the rival party under the situation where the DPRK and the U.S. remain in acute stand-off.

The U.S. impudently seeks to reduce the DPRK's peace proposal to a dead paper, persistently sticking to its diehard stance on the denuclearization. This more saliently reveals what the U.S. is after.

It is its ulterior intention to keep considering the DPRK as its warring party and foe and swallow it up one day.

The U.S. is, however, sadly mistaken. The longer the U.S. shelves the conclusion of the peace treaty, the stronger the DPRK's nuclear deterrent will grow.

The U.S. had better properly understand what is priority and affirmatively respond to the DPRK's proposal.