DPRK's Access to Nukes Is Product of U.S. Hostile Policy toward It: Russian Expert

Pyongyang, February 1 (KCNA) -- The DPRK's access to nukes is a product of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK, said Alexander Zhebin, director of the Center for the Korean Studies of the Institute of the Far East of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

He referred to the confab of the U.S., Japan and south Korea on the policy toward the DPRK held in Tokyo on January 28.

Recalling that the U.S. is expecting a new nuclear test to take place in the DPRK, he explained the reason as follows:

The U.S. seeks to justify its unilateral sanctions which have already been partially enforced and the additional ones to be slapped.

It is also mulling putting monetary and trade sanctions to isolate the DPRK through the UN Security Council.

The U.S. imposed additional sanctions upon Pyongyang under the pretext of the cyber attack on the Sony Pictures Entertainment.

This is the first proposal among a package of new sanctions against the DPRK adopted at the U.S.
House of Representatives in summer last year. The DPRK is not the only target of those sanctions.
Their final aim is to make the economic conditions of the DPRK difficult.

He noted that the U.S. and its followers found themselves in a difficult position as the DPRK made a peace proposal, a new card, contrary to their measure.

He went on:

It is the public opinion that the U.S. attitude of denying the peace proposal made by the DPRK without any condition will strain the situation on the Korean peninsula.

William Bright, U.S. senator, termed the U.S. attitude "arrogance of power".

Due to this "arrogance of power," in other words, the U.S. policy of disregarding the DPRK's concern over security compelled the latter to have access to nuclear weapons.