This article was contributed to NK News by the DPRK’s Institute for Disarmament and Peace, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has been split into two parts. Click here to read part one. 

Several of the purported facts and opinions within are not those of NK News but are representative of North Korea.

The North Korean state media custom of lower-casing the first letters in “north” and “south” Korea – reflecting the view that they are legitimately one nation – has been maintained.  

This article was originally titled “The U.S. nuclear threat to and encroachment upon the sovereignty of the DPR