The Korean Central News Agency released a commentary under the title "The US Nuclear Stick Can Never Work in the Asia-Pacific Region".

The commentary said:

The United States, which recently received hundreds of millions of US dollars from Australia according to the "AUKUS" nuclear submarine agreement, showed its moves to provide "Virginia"-class nuclear submarines to Australia.

This is not just a simple money deal but a full-scale operation of another nuclear alliance with the United States as the principal axis. It is a dangerous attempt to further deteriorate the unstable political and military environment in the Asia-Pacific region.

As everybody knows, the United States, obsessed with the ambition for establishing hegemony, set it as its main goal to contain and encircle nuclear states in the Asia-Pacific region and has been keen on the moves to organize the nuclear alliance for its attainment. It organized a confrontational entity "AUKUS" (Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States), the "Anglo-Saxon nuclear submarine alliance", under the pretext of the so-called "tripartite security cooperation" while bringing down the international nuclear non-proliferation system. This is a link in the whole chain of such moves.

The fact that the special security agreement was signed between the three parties to share the latest military technologies including nuclear submarine technology after the birth of "AUKUS" clearly proves the dangerous nature of the military bloc.

Against this backdrop, the present US administration is actively pushing ahead with the provision of nuclear submarines to Australia. Such moves of the United States gravely threatening regional peace and stability are becoming a matter of serious concern.

The United States already cooked up the "nuclear operation guidelines" with the puppet Republic of Korea and promised that nuclear weapons are included in the "offer of extended deterrence" to Japan. Like this, it has turned the US-Japan-ROK tripartite military cooperation system into a thorough nuclear alliance.

It is quite clear to which the United States regarding the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and other nuclear states in the region as a "stumbling block" to the establishment of its hegemony and taking much pain to remove them, would direct the orientation of those aggressive military blocs' simultaneous attack. The United States should ponder over the consequences to be entailed by such military adventurist act aimed at bringing nuclear clouds to the Asia-Pacific region at any cost, the commentary added.