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U.S. to Blame for Deteriorating Situation on Korean Peninsula

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 16 (KCNA) -- After the DPRK clarified its official stand that it has made a switchover in the use of plutonium in the direction of increasing its nuclear deterrent force, the U.S. bellicose forces are grumbling that north Korea is obstructing a peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue and aggravating the situation. Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary terms such assertion a base attempt to shift the blame on to the DPRK. Recalling that at the six-way talks the DPRK put forward a comprehensive and reasonable proposal for the settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. but the U.S. brought the talks to a rupture while demanding the DPRK "scrap its nuclear weapons program first", the commentary says:
    Since the six-way talks the U.S. bellicose forces have been hell-bent on a clumsy and despicable smear campaign to tarnish the image of the DPRK, groundlessly charging the DPRK with "human traffic", "drug smuggling", "issues of human rights and terrorism", etc. in order to isolate and stifle it. They set the International Atomic Energy Agency in motion to escalate their anti-DPRK campaign.
    What is more serious is that they have frantically increased their military threat to the DPRK. The U.S. does not have any political willingness to drop its hostile policy toward the DPRK but is keen to stifle the DPRK by gaining time at any cost.
    Under this situation the DPRK made a switchover in the use of plutonium produced in the course of reprocessing at least 8,000 spent fuel rods in the direction of increasing its nuclear deterrent force while putting the operation of nuclear facilities on a normal footing to cope with the situation created owing to the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK.
    The step taken by the DPRK to cope with such unreasonable hostile policy of the U.S. is a measure for just self-defence from A to Z.
    The DPRK does not feel regretful at all for having made a switchover in the use of plutonium for a self-defensive purpose but will promptly reprocess spent fuel rods to be churned out by the nuclear facilities in the future if necessary.