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KCNA Raps IAEA

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 28 (KCNA) -- The International Atomic Energy Agency in its recent "annual report for 2002" to the UN General Assembly pulled up the DPRK again. The agency malignantly faulted the DPRK for its alleged "non-compliance with the Safeguards Agreement" under NPT and its "enriched uranium program."
    In a word, the IAEA's smear campaign against the DPRK is groundless and does not deserve even a passing note as it is a product of the anti-DPRK political plot to infringe upon the sovereign right of the DPRK, which is not obliged to implement NPT.
    The DPRK does not recognize the report of the IAEA not only because of its absurd content but principally because of its status in which it exercised its legitimate sovereign right by withdrawing from NPT.
    As already known, the DPRK government in a statement dated January 10, 2003, declared that its withdrawal from NPT, which had been temporarily suspended, would automatically come into force at once. The DPRK thus completely pulled out of NPT on January 11, 2003.
    It is an internationally recognized fact that the DPRK is no longer bound to the Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA according to Article 3 of NPT as it withdrew from the treaty.
    The DPRK has, therefore, nothing to do with IAEA. It has long forgotten the IAEA and feels no need to say about it.
    Some days ago the IAEA adopted a "resolution" calling for the "DPRK's return to NPT," slandering it for its withdrawal from the treaty. This time it presented its "annual report for 2002" to the UN General Assembly in which it attacked the DPRK. These facts clearly prove how brazen-faced the IAEA has become in its effort to slander and harm the DPRK in the international arena.
    The IAEA shuts its eyes to the U.S. moves to increase its nuclear threat to the DPRK in wanton violation of the NPT and the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework and is pressurizing Pyongyang to fulfil its obligation, fully disclosing the body's true colours as a political maid of the U.S.
    The IAEA is turning aside the DPRK reasonable proposal for a package solution to the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula based on the principle of simultaneous actions. Its behaviour is intolerable.
    The IAEA is only vociferous about the "enriched uranium program" and "non-compliance with the Safeguards Agreement," echoing only the words of its master forgetful of its status and position whereby it has impartiality as part of its mission.
    It is shame on the IAEA.
    It is a pity that the U.N. has such partial and prejudiced agency acting under the pulls and strings of the U.S., bereft of any independent view.