Kerry Accused of Trying to Shift Blame for Tension on Korean Peninsula onto DPRK

Pyongyang, April 14 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Disarmament and Peace Institute of the DPRK Foreign Ministry answered the question raised by KCNA on Thursday in connection with the fact that U.S. State Secretary Kerry again pulled up the DPRK as follows: During the G-7 foreign ministerial meeting held in Hiroshima, Japan, shortly ago, the U.S. State secretary created the atmosphere of pressure on the DPRK while describing its bolstering of nuclear deterrence as "challenge" and "provocation" and went so shameful as to give impression that the U.S. is concerned for worldwide dismantlement of nuclear weapons. The DPRK's access to nuclear weapons is not a threat but an inevitable option to defend the country and the nation from the nuclear disaster that may be caused by the U.S. If the DPRK had not opted for its access to nuclear weapons and not bolstered them up steadily, it would have fallen victim to a nuclear attack by the U.S. more than a hundred times just as Japan. It is the U.S. which made the nuclear weapons for the first time in the world and dropped them on mankind. It is also the U.S. which is stepping up the modernization of nuclear weapons after designating sovereign states as targets of a preemptive nuclear attack. The more desperately the hostile forces escalate the racket for reckless pressure on the DPRK, the more sharply it will whet the nuclear treasured sword for self-defence to stamp out the root cause of nuclear disaster threatening humankind, holding high the banner of the line on simultaneously pushing forward the two fronts. -0-