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KCNA Urges U.S. Not to Shun Core Issue at Six-way Talks

KCNA

    Pyongyang, January 6 (KCNA) -- The international community is looking forward to fruitful results of the six-way talks, deeply concerned for their resumption. The fair and principled stand of the DPRK should be represented at the talks, first of all, so as to make the forthcoming talks play an important role in furthering the process of the dialogue.
    As already reported, the DPRK admitted the role to be played by the second six-way talks toward the end of last year and expressed its willingness to continue to seek an early negotiated peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue.
    Consistent is our stand toward the six-way talks.
    A package solution based on the principle of a simultaneous action is the core issue to be agreed upon between the DPRK and the U.S., being the key to solving the nuclear issue. This is our consistent claim.
    The DPRK advanced a productive proposal to put into practice measures of the first phase if the U.S. found it hard to accept the package solution all at once. These measures are for the U.S. to delist the DPRK as a sponsor of terrorism, lift political, economic and military sanctions and blockade on it and for the U.S. and neighboring countries of the DPRK to supply heavy oil, power and other energy resources to the DPRK in return for its freeze of nuclear activities. The DPRK is set to refrain from test and production of nuclear weapons and stop even operating nuclear power industry for a peaceful purpose as first-phase measures of the package solution. This can not but be one more bold concession.
    However, the U.S. demands Pyongyang completely scrap the nuclear program, not its freeze, dismissing as a new precondition the bold magnanimous measures proposed by the DPRK. This shows that the U.S. is only keen on disarming the DPRK after forcing it to scrap its nuclear program in utter disregard of its sincere efforts for the resumption of the six-way talks while failing to show any intention to make a switchover in the policy toward the DPRK.
    Such a persistent stand of the U.S. will destroy the foundation of the dialogue and cast a dark shadow on the prospect of the talks.
    We must emphasize that the preparations for the six-way talks should be orientated toward reaching an agreement on the measures of the first-phase action along with "words-for-words" commitments.
    There is no reason for the U.S. to refuse to accept the DPRK-proposed measures, the starting point and the core issue in continuing the six-way talks, if it is truly concerned for solving the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula.
    Whether the next round of the six-way talks is put on the right track or not entirely depends on the U.S. approach to it.