U.S. hard-line policy toward North Korea denounced in S. Korea
Pyongyang, January 23 (KCNA) -- The joint action for peace against war consisting of over 700 civic and public organizations called a press conference against the Seoul visit of John Bolton, U.S. undersecretary of state, in front of the U.S. embassy in Seoul on Jan. 21 and denounced the U.S. for its hard-line policy toward North Korea, according to South Korean MBC. His South Korea visit "is not helpful to peace of the Korean Peninsula and the world", the organization said, and noted:His Seoul tour is aiming to pursue sanctions on North Korea through the UN. We turn down UN sanctions and any other form of sanctions on North Korea.
The U.S. is talking about peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue of North Korea, but it is a deceptive plot to mislead the world public, the organization said, urging the U.S. to withdraw its war plan immediately and come out to dialogue with North Korea at once.
Bolton's South Korea visit is to force the hard-line policy toward North Korea on the South Korean Government and ask for assistance to the U.S. in a war against Iraq, said the organization.
