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U.S. President's Proposal under Fire

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 3 (KCNA) -- U.S. President Bush made a "proposal for non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)" in a recent speech at National Defense University in Washington. Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary dismisses this as a sheer fallacy intended to reinforce the U.S.-led "Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI)" in a bid to paralyze the function of the present international legal system and realize its ambition for world supremacy.
    It goes on:
    Bush's proposal is aimed to legalize the U.S.-led "marine and aerial blockade system" for the expansion and strengthening of the"PSI" publicized in 2003 and establish such a brigandish system for interfering in internal affairs of other countries as one for "punishing" independent non-nuclear states through the expansion of the sphere of its application.
    The proposal is an unequal proposal based on double standards quite contrary to the UN Charter calling for equality of all countries.
    What should not be overlooked is that the proposal is intended to isolate and stifle the DPRK. The U.S. "PSI" is a measure to isolate and blockade the DPRK in the light of its origin and purpose. The U.S. is working hard to force other countries to follow its hostile policy toward the DPRK, not content with labeling the DPRK's increase of its military power for self-defense as a proliferation of WMD and even banning the export of goods for dual use. The U.S. is sadly mistaken if it thinks it can browbeat the DPRK through the "PSI ."
    If the U.S. sincerely wants the "non-proliferation of WMD" and the peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula, it should admit its responsibility for having proliferated WMD worldwide and take practical actions to drop its hostile policy to stifle the DPRK, first of all.