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KCNA refutes IAEA general director's remarks

    Pyongyang, January 27 (KCNA) -- Baradei, general director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is imprudently behaving as if he is playing a certain "role" in the solution to the nuclear issue of the DPRK. During his recent visits to the United States, Japan, Russia and other countries he said "the use of force in the solution to the Korean issue should be the last resort" and "any challenge to the nuclear non-proliferation system would cause serious consequences to the whole world" in a bid to internationalize the issue.
    It is imprudent for him to have peddled the DPRK's issue, still ignoring the position of the DPRK that withdrew from the NPT and the nature of the nuclear issue, a product of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK.
    One cannot but wonder whether the general director is aware of the historic mission he should fulfil at the responsible post of the U.N. organization as his ability to judge the phenomena and nature of the reality objectively is doubtful.
    We would like to remind him once again that the DPRK issued its government statement on Jan. 10 on its total withdrawal from the NPT in order to protect the sovereignty, vital right and dignity of the country and the nation.
    It clarified that it took such a self-defensive measure because of the unreasonable behavior of the U.S. and the IAEA, its cat's paw.
    It is, therefore, an objective reality that the secretariat of the IAEA is not in a position to discuss the DPRK's issue and the days are gone never to return when it could unreasonably handle it.
    As the DPRK stressed more than once, the nuclear issue should be settled between the DPRK and the U.S. in view of its origin and its nature.
    Regrettably, Baradei, failing to understand this fundamental conception and principle, is busy with shuttle diplomacy, letting loose a string of such jargon, still not awake from the same dream as he had before Jan. 10. His demeanor would not help settle the issue but only put indelible stain on his reputation and image.
    His efforts to internationalize the DPRK's issue at the instruction of the U.S. go to clearly prove once again before the international community that the secretariat of the IAEA is no more than a poor servant and a mouthpiece of the U.S.