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KCNA Urges U.S. to Make Switchover in Its Policy toward DPRK

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- U.S. State Secretary Powell at a meeting held in Washington D.C. on March 2 reiterated a unilateral assertion that north Korea should dismantle its nukes in a verifiable and irreversible manner. In a nutshell, he repeated a sophism of American style that the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. can be settled when the former drops its nuclear program first. The process of the recent Beijing six-way talks clearly proved that the U.S. insistence on this can not settle any issue.
    At the six-way talks the DPRK showed greatest magnanimity, clarifying its will to scrap its nuclear program based on a proposal for a simultaneous package solution for the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, and put forward a proposal as regards measures for the first-phase actions.
    The participants in the talks expressed support and understanding of our fair and flexible proposal and showed such a positive response as searching measures for implementing the proposal.
    From the first days of the talks, however, the U.S. insisted on an infeasible and unrealistic old assertion that the DPRK should scrap its nuclear program first and threw an artificial hurdle in the way of the talks only to be criticized and ridiculed by the participants. As a consequence, the U.S. found itself isolated.
    By nature, the U.S. is the biggest nuclear state in the world which used nuclear weapons for the first time in the world and a nuclear criminal state which is now seeking the most dangerous nuclear policy. So it is not entitled to talk about the dismantlement of nuclear arms. Needless to say, the proliferation of nuclear arms is entirely attributable to the unilateralism of the U.S. which adopted a "preemptive nuclear attack" on other countries as its national policy.
    If the U.S. had not threatened the existence of humankind with nuclear weapons, there would not have been nuclear arms race in the world and the DPRK and the U.S. would not have had such an acute nuclear issue as it is today.
    As the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. was caused by the U.S., it should be settled from A to Z by the simultaneous actions based on the proposal for a package solution.
    Now that the U.S. persistently forces a complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement of nuclear program upon the DPRK, the latter cannot but demand the former guarantee a complete, verifiable and irreversible security the core of which is the total withdrawal of the U.S. troops from south Korea and the eternal abandonment of its hostile policy toward the DPRK, etc.
    The U.S. seems to fiddle away their time in the hope that the DPRK would step back of its own accord in order to overcome temporary economic difficulties. This will bring nothing favorable to the U.S. while the postponement of the settlement of the nuclear issue will bring nothing unfavorable to the DPRK. The recent six-way talks proved once again that the change of the U.S. attitude is a prerequisite to the settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. and the DPRK-U.S. dialogue is the basic means. The talks were very beneficial to the DPRK in confirming the future action with the conviction that the more deliberately the U.S. delays the settlement of the nuclear issue, the faster and the more perfectly the DPRK should promote all the necessary steps to cope with it.
    The settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. entirely depends on the will of the U.S. to make a switchover in its policy toward the DPRK. The DPRK will watch the U.S. attitude.