Rodong Sinmun on DPRK's withdrawal from NPT
KCNA
1/15/2003
Pyongyang, January 14 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Government's recent decision to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was a self-defensive measure for safeguarding the whole nation against the U.S. reckless moves to stifle the DPRK and the partial behaviour of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), follower of the U.S. Rodong Sinmun says this in a signed commentary today.
The DPRK Government's measure is the only proper choice for the interests of the whole Korean nation, the commentary says, and goes on:
It is none other than the U.S. that has aggravated the situation compelling the DPRK to withdraw from the treaty.
Uneasy about the progress of the independent reunification movement in the Korean Peninsula, the Bush administration has deliberately and systematically scrapped the DPRK-U.S. Agreement and led the situation of Korea to extremes.
Dancing to the tune of the U.S., the IAEA adopted an anti-DPRK "resolution," which is a clear proof that the Bush war-like group has finally decided to provoke a war of aggression against the DPRK though it talks about "dialogue" and "security ensurance."
It would be foolish for the DPRK to sit idle with folded arms under this situation. moreover, it can never remain a passive onlooker because the U.S. is going to inflict nuclear holocaust upon the Korean nation to exterminate it.
At this crucial juncture when its dignity and security are exposed to threat, any country that has pluck and strength will have to make such a decision.
