KCNA Releases Detailed Report on DPRK's Victory in Ending Era of Sanctions and Pressure over Nuclear Issue

Pyongyang, December 29 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency on Dec. 28 released a detailed report on the situation of the Korean peninsula in 2016. The detailed report reads in part: It is the consistent stand of the DPRK to make patient efforts for peace of the Korean peninsula and stability of the region. Reviewing the situation in 2015 when the touch-and-go situation of war or peace was created, the DPRK proposed again to conclude a peace treaty with the U.S., signatory of the Armistice Agreement, to remove the root cause of war as early as possible and achieve durable peace on the Korean peninsula in which they are technically at war. Early in January this year the DPRK reaffirmed its principled stand to play the responsible role to protect peace and security on the Korean peninsula and in the rest of the world and strongly demanded the U.S. and the south Korean authorities stop the dangerous war exercises for aggression and military provocations escalating the tension on the peninsula. However, the U.S. has still pursued hostile policy toward the DPRK and resorted to nuclear blackmail and threat to it, driving the situation of the Korean peninsula and the region into tensions and instability all the year round. The DPRK is demonstrating its might as a politico-ideological power and nuclear power and bringing the people's happiness under the present international situation in which sovereignty of countries and nations is being violated and they are suffering bloody disasters owing to the imperialists' aggression and interference. This stirring reality goes to prove once again the validity and vitality of the line of the Workers' Party of Korea on simultaneously pushing forward economic construction and the building of nuclear force. The DPRK with the nuclear treasured sword of justice has already declared the ruin of the era of sanctions and pressure over the nuclear issue. -0-