James Kelly's reckless remarks blasted
KCNA
Pyongyang, March 23 (KCNA) -- Some days ago James Kelly, assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, in a senate foreign relations committee hearing described the DPRK's principled stand on the nuclear issue as "the position aimed at pushing the U.S. and North Korea to a bilateral dialogue by blackmailing the U.S. and threatening its friendly and allied states."
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary dismisses his remarks as nothing but mud-slinging and vituperation against the DPRK and a revelation of the U.S. sinister intention to internationally isolate and destroy the DPRK at any cost.
The commentary goes on:
Needless to say, Kelly made such remarks according to the Bush administration's anti-DPRK nuclear scenario.
After visiting the DPRK in October last year as a special envoy of the U.S. President, he floated misinformation before the international community that the DPRK "admitted" to what he called "secret nuclear weapons development program." The plot hatched by him against the DPRK over its nuclear issue has brought about such serious consequences as sparking the second nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula and pushing the hostile relations between the DPRK and the U.S. to the worst phase.
As already clarified by the DPRK more than once, the U.S. is chiefly to blame for the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and the present nuclear crisis.
It is the DPRK's stand to settle the present nuclear crisis through the direct talks between the DPRK and the U.S. and conclude a non-aggression treaty.
The U.S. insistence on the multilateral talks is aimed to shift its responsibility for the nuclear issue onto the international community and increase the international pressure upon the DPRK.
The U.S. is seriously mistaken if it thinks it can stifle and seize the DPRK through invasion.
