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U.S. unreasonable stand under fire

KCNA

    Pyongyang, July 12 (KCNA) -- U.S. State Secretary Powell at a recent interview with a TV reporter blustered that the U.S. would not reward someone's bad behavior, creating impression that the U.S. call for North Korea's "scrapping of its nuclear program before dialogue" and its "multilateral talks" are commanding broad-based support from the international community. His remarks come under fire by a signed commentary of Minju Joson today. His recent remarks only go to clearly prove that the Bush administration, in fact, does not want a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula, the commentary observes, and goes on:
    The U.S. is only repeating its call for North Korea's "dismantlement of its nuclear program before dialogue", while keeping mum about its hostile policy toward the DPRK. This can not but be an extremely unilateral and brigandish logic intended to attain its sinister aim.
    The same holds true for the issue of multilateral talks. The DPRK is not opposed to that format of talks. The DPRK's stand to hold the DPRK-U.S. talks before the multilateral talks is quite just as it is prompted by its deep study of the essence and the nature of the issue and its analysis of them.
    The U.S. must know this, of course.
    The assertion that bad behavior would not be rewarded made by the U.S. in reference to the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula only discloses its foolish attempt to shift its responsibility onto the DPRK and seek a plausible pretext for stifling the DPRK with nukes. This diatribe, however, will get it nowhere.
    As the DPRK government has clarified more than once, its building up of a nuclear deterrent force is not aimed to get any quid pro quo from the U.S. but is a just self-defensive measure to defend the sovereignty and the dignity of the country to cope with the U.S. ever-more undisguised policy to stifle the DPRK.
    The U.S. should face up to the reality, roll back its unreasonable assertions and immediately buckle down into solving the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula in a peaceful way. This will do the U.S. good, too.