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U.S. Indicted for Ditching DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency Monday published an indictment bitterly denouncing the United States for unilaterally ditching the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework, thus escalating the nuclear standoff between the DPRK and the U.S. and creating the danger of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula. The AF which was adopted on October 21, 1994 was a historic document in which both sides committed themselves to settle the nuclear issue including the issue of replacing the DPRK's graphite-moderated reactors by LWRs, the issue of normalizing the political and economic relations between the DPRK and the U.S., the issue of denuclearizing the Korean peninsula and ensuring its peace and security and the issue of tightening the system of nuclear non-proliferation.
    Proceeding from the stand of good faith to build confidence with the U.S. and develop relations with it to suit the changed international situation and the trend of the times towards peace, the DPRK government signed the AF with the U.S. and has sincerely implemented it, the indictment says, and goes on:
    The DPRK had kept in safe storage at least 8,000 sealed spent fuel rods until the U.S. totally ditched the AF.
    The DPRK's integrity regarding the freeze of its nuclear facilities was fully proved through the inspection of "underground facilities" of the DPRK made by the U.S. experts group on a payment basis in May 1999.
    The DPRK government decided to lift restrictions on the American goods to be shipped into the DPRK and a ban on U.S. trading ships' calls at DPRK ports for transaction between the DPRK and other countries from mid-January 1995, three months after the AF was adopted, according to Article 2 of the AF stipulating that trade and investment barriers shall be eased. This was the only restrictions imposed by the DPRK upon the U.S. in economic and trade relations.
    The DPRK has thus fulfilled all its commitments under the AF.
    By refusing to push forward the construction of LWRs and completely stopping the supply of heavy fuel oil to the DPRK the U.S. earned the ill fame of a criminal who scrapped the AF.
    Under the AF the U.S. was obliged to build two LWRs with a total capacity of two million kw by 2003 and supply 500, 000 tons of heavy fuel oil to the DPRK every year until their construction is completed.
    Recalling that the U.S. insisted on the provision of "south-Korean type" LWRs which did not exist at all and laid obstacles to the allocation of funds, too, the indictment cites facts to prove how the U.S. blocked the LWR construction.
    The U.S. has not sincerely implemented its legal commitment to deliver heavy fuel oil in compensation for the loss of energy caused by the DPRK's freeze of its graphite-moderated reactor and their related facilities according to Paragraph 2 of Article 1 of the AF, the indictment notes, and goes on:
    The U.S. has not properly financed the supply of heavy fuel oil. After suspending this supply for a long period, painting the supply as a sort of "benefit," it sent a huge quantity of heavy fuel oil to the DPRK at a time, creating great confusion in its economy.
    Finally, the United States decided to stop the supply of heavy fuel oil to the DPRK on November 14, 2002 and formally halted its supply through the KEDO from December of the year.
    The U.S. thus unilaterally abrogated the only article of the AF that had been implemented.
    Noting that it was the stand of the Bush administration to abrogate the Geneva agreement, the indictment refers to the ever more undisguised U.S. moves to ditch the AF.
    On December 19, 2000 Bush, when discussing the issue of taking over the presidential office from Clinton, insisted on scrapping the AF, asserting that it was better not to have any negotiated settlement with north Korea and the Geneva agreement failed to stop north Korea from developing nukes.
    It is the U.S. commitment under the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework to lift economic sanctions against the DPRK.
    But the Bush administration regards them as a main leverage to isolate and stifle the DPRK.
    In April this year Bush set out a security plan for preventing the proliferation of weapons, asserting that the international community is entitled to intercept vessels and aircraft suspected of proliferating weapons through the open sea and along international air routes.
    On this basis the U.S. proposed a security system for preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction at the G-8 summit in June and this was elaborated at Madrid and Brisbane meetings in June and July.
    There happened abnormal situation under which the approvals of regular aid projects for the DPRK have been delayed or shelved by some UN organizations under the manipulation of the U.S.
    The present reality goes to prove that the U.S. threw away like a pair of old shoes the AF which called for the termination of the hostile relations between the DPRK and the U.S., the normalization of bilateral political and economic relations and their peaceful co-existence.
    Referring to the U.S. nuclear threat and the DPRK's nuclear deterrent force, the indictment continues:
    The U.S. has systematically increased the nuclear threat to the DPRK, among other things, by shipping into south Korea all types of nuclear weapons capable of striking the DPRK.
    It has introduced into south Korea all types of nuclear weapons including tactical nuclear bombs for fighter bombers and nuclear shells for howitzers for the last several decades.
    On May 31 this year the U.S. made public an "arms build-up plan" to arm the U.S. troops present in south Korea with new types of nuclear weapons.
    In a "report on nuclear weapons" in January 2002, the U.S. clarified that it would use nukes against north Korea. In a "report on national security strategy" issued in September of the same year Bush reiterated the U.S. intention to use nukes when mounting a preemptive military attack on the DPRK. The Bush regime defined the DPRK as part of an "axis of evil" and listed it as "a target of preemptive nuclear attack".
    This is an open challenge to its duty under the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework and a wanton violation of it.
    The U.S. declared the preemptive nuclear strike at the DPRK as its policy, reducing the joint declaration for denuclearization adopted between the north and the south of Korea to a dead document and wantonly trampling down the basic spirit of the NPT.
    But for the physical deterrent in the DPRK to cope with the U.S. "policy of strength" and "nuclear policy" a nuclear war would have already broken out on the Korean peninsula.
    The powerful war deterrent of the DPRK guarantees peace on the peninsula.
    The DPRK will further increase its nuclear deterrent as a self-defensive measure as long as the U.S. refuses to make a switchover in its hostile policy toward the former and persistently pursues a nuclear stand-off.
    When an appropriate time comes, the DPRK's increased nuclear deterrent force will be demonstrated in practice. All facts prove that the U.S. is chiefly accountable for disturbing peace and security on the Korean peninsula by scrapping the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework and escalating its nuclear threat and war moves.