U.S. urged to drop its hostile policy towards DPRK
KCNA
Pyongyang, May 15 (KCNA) -- The United States is still insisting on its old assertion that the DPRK should scrap its nuclear weapons program before dialogue, claiming that it will be an act of rewarding bad behavior to accept the new bold proposal advanced by the DPRK and Washington will not offer quid pro quo to Pyongyang. This is a clear indication that the U.S. is not willing to renounce its hostile policy toward the DPRK even after the Beijing talks.
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary says that it is illogical for the U.S. to insist on its hostile policy toward the DPRK, creating the impression that the renunciation of its hostile policy towards the DPRK is a sort of reward to it.
The news analyst continues:
The U.S. is escalating the tensions on the Korean Peninsula by increasing its threat and pressure on the DPRK, after labeling it an "enemy," pursuant to its hostile policy towards Pyongyang.
It is not a sort of reward to the DPRK for the U.S. to drop its hostile policy towards the former. Washington should have done it long ago.
Such complicated outstanding issues between the DPRK and the U.S. would not have cropped up had the U.S. dropped its hostile policy toward the DPRK as demanded by Pyongyang.
There is neither reason nor pretext for the U.S. to fail to renounce its hostile policy toward the DPRK in order to defuse the tensions and settle the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, now that the DPRK advanced a new comprehensive bold proposal for clearing up U.S. security concerns at the same time.
It will be possible to settle the outstanding issues between the DPRK and the U.S. including the nuclear issue only if the U.S. opts to renounce its hostile policy toward the DPRK and approaches dialogue from a proper stand, though belatedly.
