DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman on "multi-party talks"
Pyongyang, January 25 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea today answered a question put by KCNA as regards the U.S. recent moves to internationalize the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula. He said:Of late the United States claimed that the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula should be debated at a "multi-party talks" including the five permanent member nations of the un security council.
Lurking behind the claim is a U.S. sinister intention to flee from the responsibility for the nuclear issue and put international pressure upon the DPRK.
It is owing to the U.S. that the issue surfaced, got worse and has reached the extremes.
It is the United States that menaces the sovereignty of the DPRK and its right to existence. Only the U.S. is responsible for doing away with the threat and able to do so.
The U.S. should know that its efforts to flee from the responsibility under the signboard of the "multi-party talks," ignoring the stark fact unanimously recognized by the international community would not help solve the issue but make its settlement more complicated.
It had better soberly think over to which phase its attempt will push the DPRK.
The only way of solving the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula peacefully and in a most fair way is for the DPRK and the U.S. to hold direct and equal negotiations.
This is the invariable principled stand of the DPRK.
The DPRK is strongly opposed to any attempt to internationalize the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and will never participate in any form of "multi-party talks" related to the issue.
Any country that is interested in the nuclear issue should not seek any other purpose by poking its nose into it, but give disinterested help to the DPRK and the U.S., the parties concerned, so that they may site face to face to seek a negotiated settlement of the issue.
