We will go our own way, says Rodong Sinmun
KCNA
Pyongyang, February 20 (KCNA) -- The U.S. is making absurd remarks that North Korea is resorting to "brinkmanship" and can't get concessions through "blackmail".
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary dismisses this as a sinister trick to shift the U.S. responsibility for causing the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula onto the DPRK.
It goes on:
We are not using the alleged "brinkmanship" nor "blackmailing" anyone. We are going our own way only.
We could not but lift the measure for nuclear freeze to counter the U.S. suspension of the provision of heavy oil to us under the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework.
Under the critical situation in which the U.S. was using the IAEA in threatening our supreme interests we had no other choice but to decide to withdraw from the NPT.
It is quite clear to anyone that the decision can be neither blackmail to the U.S. nor a measure for seeking concessions.
It is self-evident that we can't sit idle with folded arms while our sovereignty is threatened and encroached on. It is our unchangeable counteraction to respond to the enemy's hardline with the toughest stand.
The U.S. had better stop making unreasonable pressure offensive against the DPRK while describing its just self-defensive measure and stand as "brinkmanship," "blackmail" and the like, and accede to the DPRK proposal to conclude a DPRK-U.S. non-aggression treaty.
