SEOUL, May 1 (Xinhua) -- The state news agency of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Monday slammed the "legitimacy" rhetoric on the deployment of U.S. nuclear strategic assets to the Korean Peninsula.
"Deploying nuclear strategic assets orchestrated by the U.S. has been a main evil source of ever-escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula," the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a commentary.
The commentary said the U.S.-South Korean rhetoric has two intentions. One is to "dodge the responsibility for the worst-ever nuclear-related crimes it (the United States) has committed by systematically destroying and violating the nuclear non-proliferation system, and in particular, pushing the situation of the Korean Peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war through the establishment of aggressive and exclusive military blocs and frantic nuclear proliferation threatening human existence."
The second intention was depicted as a design to hype the "legitimacy" of the regular deployment of U.S. strategic nuclear submarine near the Korean Peninsula and thus invent the "legal justification" for openly bringing its huge strategic assets there in the future, it said.
The article said that "it is the hegemonic sinister aim pursued by the U.S. to turn the whole of South Korea into its biggest nuclear war outpost in the Far East and effectively use it for attaining its strategy for dominating the world."
South Korea and the United States issued the Washington Declaration on Wednesday, which announced the establishment of a new Nuclear Consultative Group and the upcoming visit of a U.S. nuclear ballistic missile submarine to South Korea for the purpose of strengthening the so-called "extended deterrence." ■