North Korea blasted President
Donald Trump's recent "America First" National Security Strategy,
insisting supreme leader Kim Jong Un would keep his nuclear weapons and
refuse to bow to U.S. pressure.
North Korea's Foreign Ministry issued Friday the scathing condemnation of Trump's debut strategy,
saying it was only the latest of a number of U.S. failures to engage
the reclusive, communist state that has amassed a powerful nuclear and
ballistic weapons arsenal in defiance of U.N. sanctions. The ministry
said that, despite engaging in multilateral talks with the U.S. and
other countries for two decades, "the previous U.S. administrations
threw all the agreements reached with us into a garbage can like waste
paper," assuming the country would collapse. Despite Trump's vow to take
a tougher stance than his predecessors, the ministry said, "There is no
change at all in the strategic goal of the U.S. to achieve hegemony
over the world by means of force."
"We chose the road of possessing
the nuclear weapons to defend our sovereignty and rights to existence
and development in the face of ever increased hostile moves and nuclear
threats and blackmail of the U.S. We are convinced that the only way to
ensuring a lasting peace on the Korean peninsula is to have the
deterrence that ensures a practical balance of force with the U.S.," the
ministry wrote, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
"The international society should keep vigilance
against the maneuvers of the gang of Trump to invade and control the
DPRK with force by igniting a nuclear war at any cost in the Korean
peninsula and clearly see through the ulterior motive behind its
repeated talk of dialogue, designed to cover up its evil intention and
mock the world," it added, using an acronym for the country's official
name—the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
"The gang of
Trump likes to pose itself as if its country is a world superpower.
However, the U.S. is nothing but a corpse going to the grave."
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