DPRK-U.S. direct talks called for
KCNA
Pyongyang, March 11 (KCNA) -- The nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula is not an issue to be solved through multilateral talks but it is quite possible to find a solution to the issue if the DPRK and the U.S. sit face to face for sincere discussion. Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in a signed commentary.
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The Bush group is insisting on multilateral talks, turning its face from the proposal for DPRK-U.S. direct talks. It asserted that "the nuclear issue is not concerned with the U.S. and North Korea only but an issue affecting Northeast Asia and the whole world."
The U.S. much publicized multilateral talks are, in essence, aimed to evade its responsibility for authoring the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula.
This issue should be solved between the DPRK and the U.S. it is none other than the U.S. that poses a nuclear threat to the DPRK. The U.S. is insisting on its far-fetched assertion that North Korea is posing a "threat" to the security of the U.S. It is the DPRK and the U.S. that stand in confrontation over the nuclear issue.
By calling for multilateral talks the U.S. means letting other countries stand in its stead. This is not the stand and attitude to solve the problem but an act of evading its responsibility.
The DPRK-U.S. negotiations are neither a sort of reward to be given by one party to the other party nor a business dealing in which one party makes a profit while the other party suffers a loss.
The U.S. ever-increasing pressure on the DPRK to bring it to its knees by force would only make a clash unavoidable.
If the U.S. turns to a military option in the end, persistently turning down the DPRK principled proposal for direct talks it will lead to a catastrophic situation.
