KCNA urges U.S. to respond to direct talks with DPRK
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- The U.S. was reported to have persistently peddled its assertion that the issue of the DPRK should be discussed at "multilateral talks" involving five permanent members of the UN Security Council. The DPRK is strongly opposed to this assertion as it is aimed at evading the U.S. responsibility for the nuclear issue and using it as a leverage for international pressure on the DPRK.The nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula is, in essence, a product of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK.
The noisy anti-DPRK nuclear racket kicked up by the U.S. is intended to charge the DPRK with "nuclear weapons development" and thus mislead the world public opinion in a bid to isolate and stifle it at any cost.
Pursuant to the hostile strategy to stifle the DPRK, the U.S. is blatantly challenging the DPRK's efforts for peace and straining the situation on the peninsula, driving the DPRK-U.S. confrontation to an extreme pitch of tension.
The U.S. is, therefore, responsible for removing the main threat to the DPRK's sovereignty and right to existence.
Despite this hard reality, the U.S. is working hard to flee from its responsibility under the signboard of "multilateral talks".
This is clear from the fact that the U.S. sent "special envoys" to a number of countries to hold bilateral and multilateral security meetings, clamouring for international "coordination" and "cooperation" after peddling its assertion that the DPRK should scrap its "nuclear program" before dialogue. This is nothing but a sinister design to put the DPRK in an international siege.
It is the only best solution to the nuclear issue for the DPRK and the U.S. to have direct talks on an equal footing.
These talks alone will help settle the hostile relations between the two countries and peacefully and fairly solve the nuclear issue in the interests of the two peoples in conformity with the trend of the development of international relations.
