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KCNA on Six-way Talks and DPRK's Principled Stand

KCNA

Pyongyang, September 2 (KCNA) -- Some unsavory elements and media in the West including the U.S. are spreading weird misinformation as regards the six-way talks held in Beijing from August 27 to 29. They pulled up the DPRK, saying that north Korea's attitude confused countries around it and the talks nearly reached the point of rupture due to north Korea's hard-line remarks, impudent assertions and brinkmanship.

These are unreasonable remarks making profound confusing of the right and wrong and completely distorting the objective reality.

The six-way talks were reduced to an armchair argument as they failed to achieve any initial results and their prospect remains unpredictable.

This was entirely attributable to the U.S. brigandish assertions. As already known, the DPRK has exerted all its sincere efforts for a peaceful negotiated settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. at the talks. It clarified its consistent stand on the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and set forth reasonable and comprehensive ways for realizing it.

The DPRK, with an aim to dismantle its nuclear weapons program in exchange for the U.S. renunciation of its hostile policy toward the DPRK, set forth a proposal for package solution, requesting the U.S. to implement all the measures for it on a phased basis on the principle of simultaneous actions.

This is the most reasonable way of settling the DPRK-U.S. nuclear issue that no one can deny as it is based on the principle of simultaneous actions.

Regrettably, the U.S. flatly denied those fair and above-board principles. Refusing to show any will to make a substantial policy switchover it clarified its stand that it can discuss the issues of security assurances and economic cooperation only when the DPRK completely eliminates its nuclear weapons program first. It also said that full ranges of other issues including missiles, conventional weapons and human rights should be discussed for the normalization of the bilateral relations even after the DPRK's complete abandonment of its nuclear weapons program.

The U.S. is demanding the DPRK accept its demands while it is not moving even a step. It is asking the DPRK to drop its gun first while it is still leveling its gun at the DPRK. What a brigandish demand?

The talks clearly showed that the U.S. does not have any intention to seek a negotiated peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue between the two countries nor any willingness to co-exist.

What is clear is that the U.S. sought to lead the talks to the point of rupture by raising unilateral demands unacceptable to the DPRK and shift the responsibility for it on to the DPRK and thus convince the international community of the validity of its calls for the Pyongyang's "abandonment of nuclear weapons program first".

Due to such moves of the U.S. the talks proved hardly beneficial as they could not help settle the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S.

The DPRK's fixed will to peacefully settle the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. through dialogue remains unchanged.

If the U.S. keeps heading for a nuclear standoff, not dropping its hostile policy toward the DPRK, the DPRK will have no option but to increase its nuclear deterrent force as a self-defensive measure to protect its sovereignty.