The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Wednesday said the Korean Peninsula's nuclear issue could never be solved if the United States persisted with its hostile policy against the DPRK.

"All the issues between the DPRK and the United States including the nuclear issue can never be settled as long as the U.S. invariably pursues an anachronistic hostile policy toward the DPRK," Yang Hyong-sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, said in a report at a national meeting to celebrate DPRK leader Kim Jong-il's 64th birthday, due on Thursday.

Yang said the peninsula's position was now in an unpredictable phase due to the United States' hostile policy against the DPRK.

"The U.S. applying of financial sanctions to the DPRK is against the spirit of the joint statement adopted at the fourth six-party talks," Yang said, adding that the United States "also fabricated 'human rights issues' and 'illegal dealing' which badly tarnished the international image of the DPRK."

The aim of the United States is to overthrow the system of the DPRK, Yang added.

"The army and people of the DPRK will mobilize all the potentials they have built up with the might of Songun (the country's military-first policy) and thus wipe out the aggressors to the last man at any cost if the U.S. ignites a war of aggression," Yang warned finally in his report.

Source: Xinhua