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U.S. Urged to Make Switchover in Its Policy toward DPRK

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- At the second round of the six-way talks the U.S. totally ignored the flexible and most magnanimous proposal of the DPRK and again insisted on its old assertion that the DPRK should abandon its nuclear program first, saying that the U.S. may discuss the DPRK's concerns only when it scraps its nuclear program in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner. It even went to the lengths of absurdly asserting that Washington can not normalize relations with Pyongyang even after it abandons all its nuclear programs unless missiles, conventional weapons, biological and chemical weapons, human rights and other issues are settled. Commenting on this, Minju Joson today says:
    Such behavior of the U.S. was prompted by its unwillingness to settle the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. at the talks.
    The U.S. is insisting on scrapping the DPRK's self-defensive nuclear program, not doing what it should do. This eloquently proves that the U.S. invariably seeks to stifle the DPRK with the nuclear issue.
    It is clear that the U.S. has lost the elementary way of thinking, obsessed by the illusion of being the "superpower". Option is not the monopoly of the U.S.
    Now that the U.S. is insisting on the DPRK's complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement of its nuclear program, we cannot but demand the United States guarantee it a complete, verifiable and irreversible security.
    The second round of the six-way talks made it clear that the change of the U.S. attitude is a prerequisite for the settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. and the DPRK-U.S. dialogue is the basic means for it.
    The delay in the settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. will be unfavorable to the U.S. alone.
    During the time given the DPRK will take all necessary measures with an increased pace.
    We will watch the future attitude of the U.S.