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KCNA on U.S. Foolish Way of Thinking

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 11 (KCNA) -- A rumor is afloat on the international arena that the DPRK is driving the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. to a quagmire in the hope that if Bush is voted down, it would be possible to settle the nuclear issue more favorably. The Washington Times on March 6 in an article titled "North Korea hopes Bush to resign" said that north Korea is hoping President Bush from the Republican Party to fail in the U.S. presidential election slated for November and step down.
    We do not care where such opinion came from. But we cannot but clarify that this is nothing but sheer misinformation as it is an expression of utter ignorance of the independent nature of the DPRK's diplomacy. It is clear that this misinformation is aimed to serve the purpose of speaking for the present U.S. administration which finds itself in a difficult position after being bitterly censured at home and abroad for driving the DPRK-U.S. relations to the lowest ebb and coming out to the second round of the six-way talks without any proposal.
    As well known to everyone, the second round of the six-way talks could not produce any positive results owing to the unreasonable attitude of the U.S. toward dialogue. It proved fruitless not because of "expectation" of the DPRK.
    At the talks we showed the greatest magnanimity, clarifying our will to scrap its nuclear program according to the proposal for a simultaneous package solution aimed to denuclearize the Korean peninsula and advancing a fair and flexible proposal for implementing the first-phase actions.
    However, the U.S. did not show even an iota of its will to withdraw its hostile policy toward the DPRK and coexist with it in peace, obstinately insisting on the DPRK's completely scrapping its nuclear program in a verifiable and irreversible manner.
    The recent talks were put in a stalemate by such unreasonable attitude of the U.S. as it unilaterally insisted on the DPRK's dropping its nuclear program first. The deadlock was not attributable to the "delaying tactics" allegedly employed by DPRK in anticipation of "Bush's resignation" as claimed by the media.
    Such being a hard fact, some media talk about the DPRK's hope for "Bush's defeat" in the election, skeptical about the fair attitude of the DPRK toward dialogue. This can not be interpreted otherwise than an expression of ignorance of the DPRK's independent foreign policy.
    The DPRK does not care at all whether a candidate from the Democratic Party is elected or a candidate from the Republican Party is elected in the United States because it is a matter to be decided by the U.S. voters.
    It is a foolish way of thinking to guess that the DPRK seems to be inconsistent in implementing its foreign policy in anticipation of the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.
    It is a basic principle governing the activities of the DPRK government to firmly maintain independence in its external relations, act according to its faith and independently settle all the problems raised.
    The DPRK's diplomacy is not aimed to please anyone but fair and aboveboard one that to meet its state interests. It is the diplomacy based on the principle of independence, unlike the diplomacy of those countries reading other's face devoid of independence.
    The DPRK's stand is, therefore, consistent.
    Whoever elected U.S. president should be willing to make a switchover in its policy toward the DPRK, drop the hostile policy toward it and express readiness to coexist with it.
    This is a main point.
    If the U.S. makes a switchover in its policy toward the DPRK, though belatedly, progress will be made in the settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S.