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KCNA urges negotiations based on equality and trust

KCNA

    Pyongyang, July 21 (KCNA) -- The DPRK and the United States are locked in tense confrontation at the crossroads of war and peace due to the extreme hostile policy of the U.S. toward the DPRK. If a war broke out between them, it would be the fiercest war ever seen in the history of humankind. In face of this serious situation, the DPRK government some time ago put forward an innovative proposal to hold bilateral talks between the DPRK and the U.S. before U.S.-favored multilateral talks out of the desire to resolve the nuclear issue between the two sides and ensure durable peace and security in the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia.
    And it set forth a new and broad-minded proposal to fundamentally settle the DPRK-U.S. nuclear issue at the Beijing talks in April.
    The DPRK's proposals are realistic, fair and aboveboard ones which take into consideration the background and present state of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S., the ways of its settlement and even the U.S. "concern."
    It is well known a fact that the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula was caused by the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK and has got more serious after the Bush administration came on the scene.
    If the Bush administration had dropped this hostile policy and not listed the DPRK as a member of the "axis of evil" and target of preemptive nuclear strike, the DPRK-U.S. nuclear issue would not have been pushed to such an acute phase.
    Even though the DPRK-U.S. nuclear issue was carried into extremes, the DPRK with utmost tolerance proposed to hold DPRK-U.S. bilateral talks first and sign a non-aggression treaty through a statement of the spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry on October 25 last year and other occasions.
    Nevertheless, the United States is still insisting on "scrapping nuclear program before dialogue" and seeking to isolate and stifle the DPRK by forming what it calls "international siege".
    It is a brigandish demand little short of a call for unconditional surrender that a belligerent party urges the other to lay down arms before talks.
    The nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. is a very acute matter of "who beats whom." therefore, there can be no unilateral concession or compromise forced by one side. It can be settled only through negotiations based on the principles of fairness, equality and trust.
    As the increasing nuclear threat and war provocation moves of the U.S. compelled the DPRK to reinforce its self-defensive nuclear deterrent, the DPRK-U.S. nuclear issue must in any case be settled through simultaneous actions.
    If the United States dropped its hostile policy toward the DPRK and legally committed itself to non-aggression, the latter would be ready to dispel the U.S. "concern." insisting on "scrapping nuclear program before dialogue" aimed at disarmament of the DPRK cannot be construed otherwise than an intention not to solve the nuclear issue.
    If the United States truly wants a peaceful solution of the DPRK-U.S. nuclear issue, it should respond to the DPRK-proposed negotiations based on equality and confidence.