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U.S. urged to respond to DPRK-U.S. direct talks

KCNA

    Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- U.S. Secretary of State Powell was reported to have said recently the U.S. wants the international community to intervene in the nuclear issue as it is not simply a problem to North Korea and the U.S. and believes that the multilateral talks are the best way of settling the issue. U.S. President Bush in a press conference at the White House said that the U.S. is not opposed to bilateral talks with the DPRK without reason, noting that the nuclear issue of North Korea is obviously a regional issue. In this regard Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary says that it was the U.S. that spawned and hyped the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and brought it to an extreme phase. The U.S. is chiefly to blame for a new nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula and the international community has nothing to do with it, the commentary says, and goes on:
    The U.S. much publicized multilateral talks are nothing but a sinister plot to leave the nuclear issue to the international community to settle it and flee from its direct responsibility for it.
    Through the multilateral talks the U.S. seeks to convince the international community that the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula is an international issue and shift all the blames for the crisis onto the DPRK in a bid to charge it with "nuclear weapons development," garner the international community's support and create favorable conditions for its military attack on the DPRK.
    The DPRK remains unchanged in its principled stand that the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula should be settled by way of concluding a non-aggression treaty through the direct dialogue between the DPRK and the U.S. on the principle of impartiality and equality.
    The DPRK has no idea of begging the U.S. for a dialogue while compromising its principle.
    The U.S. should respond to the DPRK-U.S. direct talks at an early date, well aware that neither international pressure nor military threat and blackmail can work on the DPRK.
    The DPRK-U.S. direct talks are the only way of settling the nuclear issue.