North Korea on Thursday committed to continue building up its “nuclear war deterrent” in the face of what it claimed was the U.S.’s hostile policy, in a statement released to mark 70 years since the outbreak of the Korean War.

A 5500-word report, published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Institute for Disarmament and Peace, blamed the U.S. for the failure in DPRK-U.S. dialogue and “pushing” North Korea to “counter nuclear with nuclear.”

“In order to eliminate the nuclear threats from the U.S., the DPRK government made all possible efforts either through dialogue or in resort to