U.S. hit for falsifying truth
KCNA
Pyongyang, March 4 (KCNA) -- U.S. officials are spreading the misinformation that the DPRK's just self-defensive steps taken as regards the showdown with the U.S. were just aimed to "preserve its system" and "get economic reward" in a bid to twist the nature of the situation and build up a world public opinion.
Such attempt is intended to avoid the DPRK's proposal for concluding a non-aggression treaty through DPRK-U.S. direct dialogue and negotiations, the only basic solution to the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, and justify its unilateral, unrealistic and wrong assertion that "North Korea should scrap its nuclear program before dialogue."
U.S. Secretary of State Powell, when asked by CNN why the U.S. finds it so difficult to have a direct dialogue with the DPRK at a press conference on Feb. 24, cited the adoption of the 1994 DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework and the publication of the 2000 DPRK-U.S. Joint Statement as examples.
He asserted that the DPRK-U.S. direct dialogue resulted in adopting the AF and publishing the joint statement, in which the U.S. gave the DPRK a number of "assurances" and that the U.S. has honored the agreement but North Korea pursued its nuclear development in violation of it and, accordingly, the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula should be settled through "multi-lateral dialogue".
Such assertion grossly falsified the historical fact.
As the DPRK has already clarified more than once, it is none other than the U.S. that obstructed the implementation of the AF from the outset in breach of its spirit and pushed it to collapse.
The U.S. is still talking about "assurances" but it is a well known fact that such formal assurances as the provision of light water reactors, the normalization of political and economic ties, non-use of nuclear weapons and a halt to the nuclear threat, given by the AF and the joint statement, proved to be empty talks in the long run.
The U.S. assertion that it cannot respond to the DPRK-U.S. direct talks for the peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula as it is "reward" for the DPRK is nonsensical.
The U.S. should not forget before talking about any "assurances" or "reward" that if the U.S. does not try to stifle the DPRK by military force, the DPRK can live as well as it wishes on its own efforts.
The political system in the DPRK is the socialist system centred on the popular masses chosen by its people themselves and the system based on single hearted unity which guarantees high political stability.
Its independent national economy has a solid foundation and potentials.
This system is so solid that it cannot be destabilized or toppled in any temporary difficulties and there is no need for the DPRK to threaten or blackmail anyone to "get its system guaranteed" or receive any "economic reward".
The U.S. is spreading a false rumor, dodging the DPRK's proposal for concluding a non-aggression treaty in a bid to evade its direct responsibility for the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, only to reveal its shamelessness and cowardice.
If the U.S. has a true political will to seek a peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue, it should not falsify the truth but respond to the DPRK-U.S. negotiations from an honest and sincere stand.
