KCNA refutes U.S. absurd call for "multilateral talks"
KCNA
Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- U.S. senator Kennedy in his NBC appearance said "He thinks the administration should hold direct talks with the North Korean leadership," adding that this is what allies in the region including South Korea and Japan want, according to South Korean MBC.
This is an objective assessment of the call of the international community and world public for the DPRK-U.S. direct talks to solve the nuclear issue. It is, at the same time, a principled advice given to the administration to seriously handle the matter.
It is not the first time that U.S. senators asserted U.S.-DPRK direct talks.
A senator, referring to the issue of concluding a non-aggression treaty at the direct talks between the DPRK and the U.S. during the hearing of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 4, asked deputy Secretary of State Armitage why the U.S. is not ready to conclude a non-aggression treaty while it is saying it does not have a plan to attack North Korea.
Many countries are calling for the peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula through direct talks and even American politicians share the same view.
However, officials of the bush administration are insisting on "multilateral talks," asserting that the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula is not an issue concerned with the DPRK and the U.S. only but an issue which affects whole Northeast Asia and the rest of the world.
The nuclear issue, a product of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK, is an issue to be solved between the DPRK and the U.S. in view of its origin and circumstances of its outbreak.
The only way of solving it is to conclude a non-aggression treaty with legal binding force through bilateral direct talks.
The issue surfaced because the U.S. posed a threat to the DPRK with nuclear weapons in a bid to invade it and a touch-and-go situation is prevailing on the peninsula because Washington has escalated the nuclear threat to the DPRK in recent years, talking about "preemptive nuclear attack."
Therefore, the DPRK's proposal to conclude a non-aggression treaty which legally guarantees it non-aggression is the most fair and aboveboard solution to the issue.
The Bush administration calls for "multilateral talks" though it talks about "dialogue" with the DPRK and escalates the military tension on the Korean Peninsula, talking about "military options". These can not be construed otherwise than a revelation of its intention to evade its direct responsibility for the nuclear issue and unleash a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula at any cost.
This hypocritical and belligerent stand of the U.S. only makes the solution of the issue more complicated and renders the situation on the Korean Peninsula and the rest of Northeast Asia tenser.
If the U.S. is truly willing to settle the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula it should withdraw its call for "multilateral talks" going against the trend of the times and immediately opt for direct talks with the DPRK.
