KCNA refutes U.S. sophism about DPRK's decision
KCNA
1/15/2003
Pyongyang, January 14 (KCNA) -- Some of the international community are reported to have made such unreasonable remarks as expressing "serious concern" and "regret" over the DPRK's decision to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The U.S. President, Vice-President and other senior U.S. officials let loose a whole string of sheer sophism misrepresenting the nature and cause of the grave situation.
As the U.S. is to blame for spawning the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and driving it to the worst phase, there is no need for the international community to "worry" about the decision.
The DPRK Government has already clarified that though the DPRK withdraws from the NPT, it has no will to produce nuclear weapons and its nuclear activities will be confined to the production of electricity at the present stage.
If the U.S. had not listed the DPRK, a sovereign state, as part of an "axis of evil" and a target of its preemptive nuclear attack in wanton violation of the NPT and the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework (AF), such a crisis would not have occurred.
The U.S. talk about the DPRK's "admission of its nuclear development" is nothing but a product of the despicable premeditated plot hatched by the U.S. bellicose elements.
The U.S. is seriously mistaken if it calculates the DPRK will remain a onlooker to the situation where the U.S. adopted it as its policy to overthrow the DPRK's system and mobilized even the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a dirty political servant, to isolate and stifle it.
While frantically stepping up its preparations for a war of aggression against the DPRK, the U.S. unilaterally stopped the supply of heavy oil to it and thus abandoned even its last commitment that had been fulfilled under the AF, causing an enormous loss of electricity to the DPRK and creating the most acute shortage of electricity in the country.
This compelled the DPRK to defreeze its nuclear facilities.
It is an inviolable legitimate right of a sovereign state to withdraw from the NPT to develop its independent nuclear power industry under the present situation where its supreme interests are seriously infringed upon by the U.S.
Ours is a people of strong will who put into practice anything they determined to do. Even if the worst thing happens, they have nothing to fear.
Some countries and media are so foolish as to describe the step taken by the DPRK as "brinkmanship". But it is not "brinkmanship".
The DPRK regards any U.S. sanctions against it as a declaration of a war and is fully combat-ready to cope with it.
It is the unshakable will of the Korean people that if the ten million-strong army and people unite as one and fight in a do-or-die spirit, they can surely emerge victorious.
If the U.S. politicians value the interests and future of their country, they had better properly understand the DPRK's resolute stand and stop going reckless.
