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KCNA Slams U.S. Moves to Politicize Aid

KCNA

Pyongyang, September 25 (KCNA) -- Some UN organizations are now putting on hold or shelving the approval of regular aid projects for the DPRK. This is attributable to the political attempt of some countries including the U.S. and Japan to use the aid of UN organizations to the DPRK as a leverage to put pressure upon it.

The U.S. has long abused the name of the UN responsible for global peace and security for implementing its policy to stifle the DPRK and desperately worked to achieve its political purposes with the help of international organizations.

This year alone, several officials of the U.S. administration including U.S. State Undersecretary Bolton made several attempts to put pressure upon the DPRK by bringing up the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula for discussion at the UN Security Council, claiming that it is appropriate to discuss north Korea's nuclear issue at the UN Security Council.

In May U.S. State Secretary Powell proposed the UN's participation in forming a "united front," part of the U.S.-led collective blockade strategy aimed to isolate and stifle the DPRK, and in July he blustered that bad acts would not be rewarded.

Some days ago, non-governmental aid organizations including the Asian Foundation of the U.S. put their heads together in Seoul to block the aid of the international organizations to the DPRK.

In fact, the U.S. expressed its will to offer 100,000 tons of food aid to the DPRK through the World Food Program this year but only 40,000 tons of it have been supplied but nobody knows when the remaining 60,000 tons would be delivered.

Actively toeing the U.S. line, Japan made the far-fetched assertion that no aid should be given to north Korea unless the issue of "abduction" is settled when the new term aid projects of the UN Population Fund for the DPRK was under discussion at a meeting of its Executive Council in June. Meanwhile, Abe, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, on Sept. 12 blustered that if the families of those abducted are not allowed to return to Japan, no economic aid would be provided by Japan to north Korea.

Attempts of the U.S. and Japan to block the "aid" and "cooperation" to the DPRK, raising a hue and cry over the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula and the issue of "abduction" are intolerable as they are a wonton violation of the principles of international cooperation.

The moves of the U.S. and Japan to politicize the regular aid of UN organizations to the DPRK in a bid to isolate and stifle it only bring into bolder relief their true colors as wanton violators of the UN Charter and international laws.

The international organizations should reject any attempt of the U.S. to politicize and make selective aid projects and observe the impartiality in their activities.