PYONGYANG, May 3 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. hostile policy toward the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has not changed at all, the official Korean Central News Agency quoted a spokesman of the DPRK's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea as saying Sunday.

    As the commander of the U.S. "imperialist aggressor forces" in South Korea said the United States would remain firmly committed to providing a nuclear umbrella to the South and the U.S.-South Korean mutual defense would maintain the prompt combat readiness, the DPRK would "go straight in the direction of bolstering up its nuclear deterrent for self-defence," the spokesman was quoted as saying in a statement.

    The statement said the "bellicose remarks" declared the "full scale military confrontation" with the DPRK and represented "dangerous, reckless moves to spark off a nuclear war after bringing the inter-Korean relations to total collapse."

    It clearly proved that the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK had not changed at all and the United States had better stop its reckless moves for war at once, the statement said.