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Rodong Sinmun on U.S. policy of pressure

KCNA

    Pyongyang, June 29 (KCNA) -- A declaration taking issue with the DPRK was adopted at the G-8 summit meeting in France some time ago and the U.S. is working hard to bring the Korean issue before the UN to adopt a "president's statement" and openly announcing that it will intensify "pressure through the UN." Rodong Sinmun says this in a signed commentary today.
    The U.S. is advertising its pressure upon the DPRK as if it were a means of dialogue, but it is a preposterous sophism, and dialogue and pressure cannot go together, says the commentary.
    Citing detailed facts that the U.S. is pursuing economic sanctions and blockade, military showdown and war, not paying attention to dialogue for settlement of the nuclear issue in the Korean peninsula, the commentary goes on:
    Pursuing dialogue or pressure is a touchstone deciding whether to want war or peace.
    If the U.S. really aspires after DPRK-U.S. dialogue, it will be welcomed. But if the U.S. pursues a big-stick policy, it will be countered not in a gentlemanly way.
    The DPRK is not frightened by any tactics of pressure because it has a strong war deterrent force. The U.S. gunboat diplomacy is impotent before our army and people who value independence as much as their lives.
    The U.S. would be well advised to stop its policy of pressure upon the DPRK which is incompatible with dialogue, mindful that any base and vicious schemes and means do not work on the DPRK which has great Songun politics and the might of single-heated unity.