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U.S. state undersecretary's anti-DPRK remarks under fire

    Pyongyang, August 31 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry answered a question put by KCNA today as regards U.S. undersecretary of state John Bolton's recent vituperation against the DPRK. Bolton during his recent trip to south Korea made malignant accusations against the DPRK, saying that it has the most powerful offensive biological weapon program on earth, it is posing a threat by developing weapons of mass destruction and smuggling missiles and their technologies and that it must accept a nuclear inspection.
    Known as a standard-bearer among the notorious hard-line hawks of the Bush administration Bolton never opens his month without making anti-DPRK remarks, bereft of reason. Therefore, his recent outbursts do not deserve even a passing note.
    But if there is any security issue over which the U.S. should worry, it is entirely attributable to the Bush administration's hostile policy toward the DPRK.
    The DPRK clarified more than once that if the U.S. has a will to drop its hostile policy toward the DPRK it will have dialogue with the U.S. to clear the U.S. of its worries over its security.
    This principled stand of the DPRK over the bilateral dialogue remains unchanged and the ball is in the court of the U.S. side.