The US is terming the DPRK's recent fire of a new-type large-calibre multiple launch rocket system the "short-range missile launch" and violation of the UN "resolution".

As soon as the DPRK's new-type weapon fire was reported on March 21, the south Korean puppet forces claimed that the "north launched a short-range projectile" and the special representative of the US Department of State for Korea policy, a spokesman for the US Department of State for the East Asian and Pacific Affairs and a spokesman for the US Defense Department vied with each other in blustering that the "missile launch by use of the ballistic missile-firing technology is a clear violation of the UN Security Council's resolution" and "north Korea should refrain from escalating tension and focus on taking detailed measures for keeping international promise and duty".

The US is now taken aback by the DPRK's tremendous military muscle.

Even the president of the US Institute for Science and International Security was astonished at the DPRK's opening to the public of its miniaturized and standardized nuclear warheads, saying that "north Korea might have already had the capability of miniaturizing nuclear warheads".

Commenting on the drill for the ballistic rocket launch staged by the Strategic Force of the Korean People's Army, the US said that the "separated warhead successfully exploded at the preset altitude after it reentered the atmosphere, resisting the friction heat" and "nuclear explosion might occur in the sky over the Korean peninsula, rendering all electronic systems dysfunctional". This reminds one of a saying a scalded dog fears cold water. It also seems the US has become so nervous as to mistake the thunder for the nuclear explosion as it failed to discern the ballistic missile fire and multiple launch rocket system fire.

The US has deployed all sorts of strategic and tactical nuclear weapons in south Korea after calculating that its persistent unprecedented and heinous policy of blockading the DPRK would prevent the latter from bolstering its strength.

Its wild dream went up in smoke and very expensive weapons turned into scrap iron in the face of the DPRK's H-bomb test and showing off of its military muscle through ballistic rocket fire.

The deployment of the multiple launch rocket system is like a horrible nightmare for the US as the system is of great strategic significance in remarkably increasing the capabilities of the Korean People's Army in mounting precision attacks on the enemies' targets in the operational theatre in the southern part of Korea.

The US ridiculous and hysterical behaviour just stems from its horror of the DPRK.

If the US fears the DPRK so much, the former should have withdrawn all its military hardware from south Korea and stopped joint military drills for aggression.

The US desperate efforts for finding other recipe for curing its hysteria will only invite criticism and denunciation by the world people and self-ruin.

The DPRK can never allow the US, out of inveterate repugnance, to unreasonably find fault with the former.

The US is staging the nuclear war drills targeting the DPRK while openly revealing its ulterior intention to do harm to the dignity of the supreme leadership and social system of the latter even by throwing away its mask of "annual and defensive exercises". This makes the international community believe that the US is, indeed, the arch criminal escalating tension.

Whenever the DPRK takes military countermeasures, the US is slandering the former by raking all stooges.

This is aimed to shift the blame for the escalating tension on the Korean peninsula on to the DPRK by intentionally and persistently pulling it up and label it as the "violator of international law".

The DPRK's recent measures are due ones for self-defense to stand up against the US which is staging a series of military acts aiming at the former's leadership by mobilizing the largest number of aggression troops and strategic assets in history. The US cannot label the DPRK's toughest countermeasures for safeguarding the sovereignty and right to existence of the country and the nation as illegal ones nor can it conceal its criminal nature.

Unless the US drops its nuclear threat and blackmail and hostile policy toward the DPRK, the latter will take stronger measures for self-defense to cope with them.

KCNA