DPRK to react to unreasonable "countermeasure" with toughest stance
KCNA
1/20/2003
Pyongyang, January 19 (KCNA) -- U.S. Secretary of State Powell said that the nuclear issue of the DPRK should be brought to the UNSC and "concrete countermeasures including economic sanctions would be seriously considered." This fully represented the hostile intention of the Bush administration to shift the responsibility for the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, which was authored and has been hyped by it, and the resultant serious developments on to the DPRK and use the un platform as was the case with the IAEA for internationalizing its campaign to pressurize, isolate and stifle the DPRK.
The U.S. is entirely to blame for the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula. This issue was unreasonably put on the U.N. agenda to be discussed there in the past as the U.S. instigated the IAEA to create artificial difficulties and complexity in the way of settling the issue.
But the crisis over the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula in 1993 was settled through negotiations between the DPRK and the U.S., not by the UN. This historical fact proves that the issue can be settled only through equal and fair dialogue and negotiations between the DPRK and the U.S., not by any third party's unjust intervention.
If the United Nations wants to show its principled stand and attitude to settle the issue with a fair concern for it, it should call into question the U.S. unreasonable DPRK policy that compelled it to take a self-defensive step to withdraw from the NPT.
The U.S. abandoned its commitments to fully normalize the political and economic relations with the DPRK, provide light water reactors to the latter and supply heavy oil to it, thus unilaterally and totally ditching the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework and causing an acute shortage of electricity to the DPRK. It also singled out the DPRK as a target of its preemptive nuclear attack after listing it as part of an "axis of evil", creating extremely grave danger of a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.
Such act of threatening the DPRK's vital right is a crime against humanity quite contrary to the spirit of the UN Charter for peace of humankind as it is intolerable political violence in the modern society.
If the U.S. drives the developments to the extremes, turning aside the DPRK's fair and aboveboard proposal for settling the issue in a peaceful way through the conclusion of a non-aggression treaty with the U.S. and clamoring for any "countermeasures," the DPRK will be left with no option but to counter it with the toughest stance.
