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KCNA Urges U.S. to Show Will to Make Policy Switchover

KCNA

    Pyongyang, August 18 (KCNA) -- The United States is building up public opinion on "written security assurances," "collective security assurances," "early inspection," etc. inside and outside the country in the run-up to the six-way talks. If this is the U.S. stance on the talks one can not but doubt whether it is going to repeat its previous unjust assertion at the forthcoming talks, too, sidestepping the essential issues to be solved between the DPRK and the U.S.
    As everybody knows, the key to the solution of the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula is for the U.S. to make a fundamental switchover in its hostile policy towards the DPRK.
    The nuclear issue cropped up and has deteriorated as the present Bush administration listed the DPRK as part of an "axis of evil" and a target of its preemptive nuclear attack and scrapped the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework. The U.S. switchover in its hostile policy towards the DPRK is, therefore, a precondition for solving the issue.
    The ups and downs in the past dialogues and negotiations between the DPRK and the U.S. were attributable to the U.S. wrong stance on dialogue and persistent hostile policy towards the DPRK.
    At the Beijing talks held in last April the DPRK put forward a new bold and comprehensive proposal which calls for simultaneous package settlement of the nuclear issue and the issue of concerns between the DPRK and the U.S. but Washington did not accept it, playing a trick.
    The U.S. should not forget the lesson taught by the previous talks but drop its double-dealing tactics of "dialogue and pressure," a product of its hostile policy towards the DPRK, before the talks.
    The U.S. continued pressure on the DPRK including "economic blockade" and military blackmail would only sour the atmosphere of the talks and cast dark shadow on the prospect of the talks.
    The six-way talks are expected to open amid keen interest and expectation of the international community. If they are to prove trustworthy and fruitful it is important for the U.S. to make a bold decision to make a switchover in its policy towards the DPRK.
    The DPRK will be able to judge that the U.S. has practically abandoned its hostile policy towards the DPRK only when the DPRK and the U.S. conclude a legally-binding non-aggression treaty and establish diplomatic relations and when it becomes clear that the U.S. does not hinder the economic cooperation between the DPRK and other countries.
    If the U.S. does not express its will to make a switchover in its policy towards the DPRK the DPRK will have no option but to declare that it can not dismantle its nuclear deterrent force at the talks.