By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

Western pressures and US bullying of North Korea has been firmly responded by Pyongyang.
On September 9, a day after the death of the godmother of the Western world (Britain’s Queen Elizabeth), Kim Jong-un surprised the world by declaring North Korea a nuclear weapons state.
According to Kim, the decision is irreversible and he ruled out the possibility of any talks on denuclearization. The young leader also made it clear to the US that the new law enshrines the country’s right to use a pre-emptive nuclear strike to protect itself.
Surprisingly, France which possesses approximately 300 nuclear weapons says it is worried about what it called threats to regional and international peace and security by the recent decision made by North Korea.
Well, if France or other Western countries have concerns about North Korea, then what about the thousands of nuclear weapons stored at their arsenals?
Has North Korea ever threatened any regional state with nuclear weapons, unlike the regular US threats of targeting independent countries with what they call preemptive strategic nuclear strikes?
On the other hand, it seems that US President Joe Biden’s regime has accepted the truth and now claims it has no hostile intent towards North Korea.
Washington also says that it is willing to resume talks with Pyongyang.
The North Korean administration well knows the tricks and ploys of Uncle Sam, and this time Lazy Joe like his predecessor Donald the Dotard (Trump) is trying to manipulate the situation in its own favor.
On one hand it claims that it is ready to meet the North Korean leaders without any preconditions and on the other hand, it says it is in full coordination with its so-called regional allies.
Although the Biden regime has indicated its willingness to talk to Pyongyang, it hasn’t said whether Biden would meet Kim.
This is indeed a slap in the face of the US which last year reviewed its policy on North Korea and declared that its main goal is the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
As a matter of fact, the nuclearization of North Korea, although deplorable, is the result of hypocrisy and broken promises of the US.

It is worth recalling that in the 1990s when Pyongyang had not yet gone nuclear, President Bill Clinton had promised American assistance in building atomic power plants in North Korea for peaceful use of nuclear energy, provided the hard-water plants are shut.
North Korea obliged, and despite years of waiting, the US promise was not just materialized, but Washington militarized the Korean Peninsula by supplying South Korea with sophisticated ‘state-of-the-art’ military technology with secret plans for regime change in Pyongyang.