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Spokesman for DPRK FM Denounces U.S. Reckless Stand at Six-way Talks

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea today issued a statement to the press denouncing the Bush administration for having recently spread a rumor about the six-way talks held in Beijing in late February in a bid to deceive the international community. �@He said:
    The United States is advertising that the six-way talks achieved a "success" in a bid to calm down the bitter domestic and foreign criticism of its act of hamstringing the settlement of the nuclear issue and prevent an atmosphere unfavorable to the forthcoming presidential election from being created.
    The recent talks could not yield any results due to the fundamental difference between the DPRK and the U.S. in their stands. The U.S. talked about "talks without any precondition" whenever an opportunity presented itself. But at the recent talks the U.S. only repeated the assertion that "the DPRK should scrap its nuclear program first" with which it came out at the tripartite talks and the six-way talks held last year, refusing to show any will to make a switchover in its policy.
    This irresponsible attitude and remarks on the part of the U.S. side clearly proved that it is not willing to co-exist with the DPRK and its earlier suggestions to discus and settle the nuclear issue through the six-way talks and hold the bilateral talks, too, within the framework of the six-way talks are nothing but jugglery devoid of any will to make a policy switchover.
    Such being a hard fact, the U.S. is still repeating the VICD, a demand that can be forced upon criminals only. It is, indeed, embarrassing and disgusting to hear that.
    If the U.S. is so fond of using the phraseology of VICD, it should commit itself to completely drop its hostile policy towards the DPRK in a verifiable and irreversible manner.
    The U.S. persistent insistence on the repudiated VICD is aimed to force the DPRK to completely halt even its nuclear activity for a peaceful purpose, a legitimate right of a sovereign state.
    Refuting the groundless accusation made by the U.S. against the DPRK over "enriched uranium program," he said the DPRK has never admitted it. The U.S. far-fetched assertion about this program is intended to attack the DPRK under that pretext just as it did against Iraq, he noted, and continued:
    The U.S. reckless stance only pushes the DPRK to further increase its nuclear deterrent force.
    It is not intended to find a negotiated solution to the issue but to achieve its ulterior aim, wasting time. This delay does nothing bad to the DPRK as it will have time to take more necessary steps with increased pace.
    The U.S. would be most seriously mistaken if it calculated that the same would happen in the DPRK as what did in Iraq, turning away from its stand, he warned. .