Rodong Sinmun on Rumsfeld's utterances about "nuclear threat"
KCNA
12/30/2002
Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld recently made much ado about fictitious "nuclear threat" from the DPRK, talking about "concern" and "deterrence". His utterances are no more than a sophism to justify the U.S. aggressive nuclear domination strategy, Rodong Sinmun today says in a signed commentary.
The commentary continues:
The U.S. clamour about "nuclear capacity of North Korea" is a far-fetched abuse bereft of scientific ground.
The U.S. much ado about "North Korea's stockpile of enriched uranium" after the Pyongyang visit of a special envoy of the U.S. President is aimed to tarnish the daily-growing international prestige of the DPRK, reverse the positive developments of the Korean Peninsula and bring its moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK to the international arena.
The U.S. has reduced the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework to a dead document by deciding to stop the supply of heavy oil to the DPRK, instead of positively responding to its proposal for concluding a non-aggression treaty between the DPRK and the U.S. The U.S. argument about "threat from North Korea" is no more than a third-rate trick to mislead public opinion at home and abroad.
It is foolish for the U.S. to link its decision on the deployment of the MD with the DPRK.
The U.S. imperialists are working hard to realize its sinister attempt through international pressure on the DPRK.
But it is only increasing the anti-U.S. feelings of Koreans hundred times. The U.S. tactics of pressure and isolation are impotent in the DPRK.
The U.S. would be well advised to give up its reckless policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK.
