KCNA on recent DPRK-U.S. talks
KCNA
Pyongyang, April 30 (KCNA) -- The U.S. again seeks to refer the DPRK's nuclear issue to the UN in the wake of the DPRK-U.S. talks held in Beijing to find a solution to the nuclear issue.
According to AP, the Bush administration on April 25 said "it will confer with allies about possibly seeking un sanctions against North Korea" and Reuters reported that the U.S. would again propose the un security council adopt a statement denouncing North Korea's nukes. The South Korean MBC said that the U.S. is contemplating referring North Korea's nuclear issue to the UNSC again.
These are one more intolerable challenge to the dialogue partner as they clearly prove that the U.S. is escalating its desperate moves to put international pressure upon the DPRK and bring it to its knees by internationalizing the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula under the abused name of the UN.
The U.S. claims it does so because the DPRK did not accept its demand for the dismantlement of its nuclear program before dialogue but made a bomb-like statement at the talks. This is, however, illogical as it can convince no one. These can not be construed otherwise than a mean trick to justify its deliberate act intended to prevent talks from making progress and slander the DPRK which has approached the talks from a sincere stand and attitude.
If the talks were to make progress the U.S. should have clarified its political will to make a brave switchover in its hostile policy toward the DPRK at the talks and proved it in practice.
It is because the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula is a product of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK. Putting an end to the bilateral hostile relations is, therefore, a precondition for the success of the talks.
However, the U.S. unilaterally repeated its previous assertion that the DPRK should scrap its nuclear program before dialogue without saying anything about such issue.
As far as the dismantlement of the nuclear program is concerned, it means disarmament presupposing a "verifiable inspection". The Iraqi war proved that inspection is a prelude to a war.
In case the DPRK, small in its territory and population, becomes a "respected member of the international community" after being completely disarmed, what does this mean to it?
How can it counter with acts of aggression on the part of the U.S. which defies even the UN and international law for its own interests?
The U.S. which possesses the biggest number of nuclear weapons in the world and poses a constant threat to other sovereign countries with them should scrap its nuclear program before such a small country as the DPRK does.
At the recent talks the DPRK made a new and bold proposal to clear up at the same time the bilateral concerns of the DPRK and the U.S., parties concerned with the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula. But the U.S. attended the talks empty-handed and kept urging the DPRK to accept Washington's worn-out proposal for the dismantlement of its nuclear program in consequence, the talks ended without results.
All these facts go to clearly prove that the U.S. did not attend the talks to have an in-depth discussion on outstanding issues between the two countries but misused them for seeking a pretext for isolating and stifling the DPRK and securing a leverage to put unilateral pressure upon it in a bid to bring the nuclear issue to the un from the beginning.
The talks proved fruitless due to the U.S. misbehavior. But the DPRK, which wants to peacefully settle the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, does not think that the talks came to a complete rupture.
The resumption of the DPRK-U.S. talks entirely depends on whether the U.S. drops its hostile policy toward the DPRK or not.
If the U.S. brings up the nuclear issue for discussion at the un and seeks a resolution on applying sanctions against the DPRK, far from renouncing its hostile DPRK policy, the DPRK will take self-defensive measures, regarding it as the green light to a war.
The DPRK has a self-defensive capacity and physical deterrent force strong enough to wipe out any aggressors at a single stroke. The U.S. air attack will be countered with the air attack of the Korean People's Army and its land strategy with KPA land strategy.
The DPRK is ready for both dialogue and confrontation.
It will closely follow the U.S. moves.
