KCNA calls for proper understanding of origin of nuclear issue
Pyongyang, January 27 (KCNA) -- The United Nations and some countries are trying to mediate the settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula through the dispatch of a special envoy and delegations to the DPRK. This is quite understandable now that the NPT is being gravely violated and the political and military situation on the peninsula and in Northeast Asia is deteriorating owing to the U.S. high-handed and arbitrary practices.What should be made clear here is that the international community should have a correct understanding of the origin of the issue and what is the right way of solving it.
The nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula has not been settled but reached the extremes not because of the lack of the international community's efforts to mediate its solution.
The issue is the matter of bilateral nature that should be settled between the DPRK and the United States through negotiations as it is a product of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK.
The U.S. is claiming that its unilateral demand represents the common view of the international community while describing the DPRK's restart of its frozen nuclear facilities and its withdrawal from the NPT as a "breach" of international law. This is no more than a crafty attempt and sophism to equate an assailant with a victim.
It was none other than the Bush administration that nullified what was achieved in the efforts to improve the DPRK-U.S. relations during its preceding administration, listed the DPRK as part of an "axis of evil" and singled it out as a target of preemptive nuclear attacks, thus breaching the basic spirit of the NPT and the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework.
The DPRK's decision to withdraw from the NPT is being described by some of the international community as an international issue of universal importance related to the fate of the NPT because of such base moves of the U.S. and the IAEA which acts its political waiting maid away from the principle and impartiality as an international organization.
If other countries are interested in the solution to the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, they should bear in mind that the only thing they are requested to do is to urge the U.S. to come out to the negotiations with the DPRK without preconditions.
If they behave with the contention that the DPRK should move unilaterally or it is the way of solving the issue to internationalize it, ignoring the unavoidable stark historical fact related to the settlement of the issue, they will only create an unpredictable complexity and difficulties in the solution of the issue and the efforts to establish justice and equality in the international relations will fail, either.
