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Spokesman of FM Urges U.S. to Drop Its Hostile Policy towards DPRK

KCNA

    Pyongyang, September 29 (KCNA) -- Increased efforts on the part of the U.S. to perpetuate its military presence in south Korea under the anachronistic south Korea-U.S. mutual defense treaty would only make the prospect of achieving peace and security on the Korean peninsula and in the region more dismal, said a spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry in a statement released on Monday 50 years after the conclusion of the treaty. The statement says:
    The U.S. has persistently opposed the DPRK's proposal to conclude a non-aggression treaty for the settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S.
    It is the U.S. worry that the conclusion of the non-aggression treaty between the DPRK and the U.S. might reduce the "south Korea-U.S. mutual defense treaty" which stipulates the DPRK as a "principal enemy" to a dead document.
    It is because of this worry that the U.S. is talking about such "written security assurances in the form of Congress resolution" minus legal-binding force or "collective security assurances" by neighboring countries, persistently refusing to assure the DPRK of non-aggression through a treaty.
    The U.S. is foolishly seeking to fish in the troubled waters by maintaining the confrontational structure in the era of the Cold War through the south Korea-U.S. mutual defense treaty.
    Such attempt of the U.S. is little short of bedevilling the inter-Korean relations that have favorably developed according to the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
    This is also quite contrary to the common interests of the neighboring countries which wish to see a new peace mechanism on the Korean peninsula.
    Inciting confrontation would only lead to a physical clash. The U.S. should express its will to drop its hostile policy towards the DPRK and opt for concluding a non-aggression treaty with the DPRK without delay.