KCNA hails DPRK's withdrawal from NPT
Pyongyang, January 12 (KCNA) -- As was reported, the DPRK Government issued a statement Friday, as regards the dangerous situation of the Korean Peninsula where the sovereignty of the Korean nation and the DPRK's security are seriously violated due to the U.S. vicious hostile policy toward the DPRK, and declared its withdrawal from the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty).
This is an important measure taken to protect the supreme interests of the DPRK and the country and nation's sovereignty, right to existence and dignity. It is also a legitimate self-defensive step against the U.S. moves to stifle the DPRK and the unreasonable behavior of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which is being used as a tool for executing the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK.
The United States instigated the IAEA to adopt a "resolution" against the DPRK on January 6 in the wake of a similar "resolution" made on November 29, 2002. The IAEA termed the DPRK "a criminal" and demanded it scrap its "nuclear program" at once by a verifiable way.
After the adoption of the "resolution", the IAEA director general did not hesitate to make an ultimatum-style remarks, even setting the deadline for its implementation.
In the recent "resolution", the IAEA insisted on the unilateral demands of the United States, keeping mum about its gross violation of the NPT and the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework.
This reveals once again the falsehood and hypocrisy of the signboard of impartiality the IAEA put up as an international body.
The DPRK Government vehemently rejected the "resolution" of the IAEA as a grave encroachment upon the country's sovereignty and the dignity of the nation.
It is none other than the U.S. which wrecks peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and drives the situation to an extremely dangerous phase. It has been evidenced by the belligerent and extremely hostile policy towards the DPRK pursued by the U.S. after the appearance of the Bush administration.
The Bush administration listed the DPRK as part of an "axis of evil", adopting it as a national policy to oppose its system, and singled it out as a target of preemptive nuclear attacks, openly declaring a nuclear war.
The U.S. brought up another "nuclear suspicion" in a bid to shift the blame for its systematic violation of the AF on to the DPRK. It also stopped the supply of heavy oil, reducing the AF to a dead document, and answered the DPRK's sincere proposal for the conclusion of a DPRK-U.S. non-aggression treaty and its efforts for negotiations with such threats as "blockade" and "military punishment".
The U.S. went so far as to set the IAEA in motion to internationalize its policy to stifle the DPRK, putting its declaration of a war into practice and intentionally eliminating the last possibility of a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue of the Korean peninsula.
The present military situation on the Korean Peninsula is reminiscent of the touch-and-go situation created by the U.S. hardline policy to stifle the DPRK ten years ago.
Under this situation, the people and the army of the DPRK are filled with the strong resolution to increase the self-defensive military capabilities under the uplifted banner of the army-based policy and decisively repulse the intervention and provocative pressure of the hostile forces seeking to encroach upon the sovereignty of the country and the dignity of the nation.
