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KCNA Dismisses Any U.S. "Written Security Assurances"

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 7 (KCNA) -- U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kelly was reported to have said at talks with the chairman of the Policy Research Council of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan on October 1 that the U.S. may put its promise not to attack the DPRK by force on record in a document but it does not contemplate about the conclusion of a non-aggression treaty. The DPRK stand on this matter is that what he called "written security assurances" are nothing but a blank sheet of paper which can never give any legal guarantee that the Bush administration will not attack the DPRK.
    The DPRK cannot believe that such assurances are trustworthy because the present U.S. administration has ditched a series of agreements signed between the DPRK and the U.S. in the past.
    The U.S. in the DPRK-U.S. joint statement adopted on June 11, 1993 promised not to threaten the DPRK with nukes but respect its sovereignty and refrain from interfering in its internal affairs. It reaffirmed the principle of terminating the hostile relations between the DPRK and the U.S. in the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework published on October 21, 1994 and the DPRK-U.S. Joint Communique announced on October 12, 2000.
    As soon as the Bush administration came to power it unilaterally abandoned its commitments stipulated in the documents related to the DPRK-U.S. relations signed in the period of the previous administration, reducing them to dead ones.
    Talking about the "written security assurances" the U.S. is, in actuality, beefing up its armed forces around the Korean peninsula and staging military exercises targeted against the DPRK one after another.
    This teaches a serious lesson that there is no guarantee that the next administration will not backpedal the commitments made by the present administration and reveals with added clarity that the socalled "written security assurances" are nothing but a political plot of the Bush administration to mislead the world public and invent a pretext to invade the DPRK.
    Now that unilateralism of the U.S. as a superpower has reached its height what is necessary for the DPRK is not a document changeable when the U.S. chief executive is replaced by another but a non-aggression treaty with a legal binding force.
    It is unthinkable for the DPRK to hope to see the nuclear issue solved and expect peace and security on the Korean peninsula, counting on Bush's "written security assurances" to be reduced to a dead document any time as it lacks Congress ratification.
    The U.S. persistent refusal to conclude a non-aggression treaty compels the DPRK to steadily increase the nuclear deterrent force as a means for just self-defence to avert the danger of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula and protect the sovereignty and security of the country.