U.S. Is Wholly to Blame for Tension on Korean Peninsula: KCNA Commentary

Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- The highest-ever tension is prevailing and a nuclear war is looming on the Korean peninsula. Commenting on it, the Algerian newspaper El Khabar said: The U.S. and south Korea have staged joint military drills on the Korean peninsula every year only to keep the regional situation tense but the situation is the tensest-ever this year. It is because the on-going joint drills are targeting the supreme leadership of the north. The chairman of the World Peace Council said that the U.S. and its allies are pursuing the sinister goal of bringing down the socialist system of Pyongyang by force, adding it is part of Washington's scenario to carry out its strategy of dominating Asia and a war scenario against independent countries. The chairman of the Al Hadi Islam Propaganda Organization of Iran blamed the U.S. for persisting in reckless nuclear threat and blackmail against the DPRK for decades. This is the unanimous view of the international community on the aggressive nature and gravity of the joint military drills being staged by the U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces. The reality clearly proves what is the root cause of the touch-and-go situation prevailing on the Korean peninsula. The U.S. is the arch criminal that compelled the DPRK to have access to nuclear weapons and bolster them up. If the U.S.-south Korea joint war drills targeting the supreme leadership of the DPRK show any slight sign of going over into an actual war, the DPRK will launch a merciless preemptive nuclear attack to reduce the enemy bases to ashes. This is the firm will of the service personnel and people of the DPRK. -0-