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DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman Blasts Cheney's Anti-DPRK Remarks

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, April 18 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to the question put by KCNA today as regards the reckless remarks made by U.S. Vice-president Cheney inciting bitterness towards the DPRK during his tour of Asian countries: According to press reports, Cheney pulled up the DPRK, asserting that it poses a threat to peace and it is so dangerous as to spread nuclear and missile technology to such terrorist organizations as "Al Qaeda." He also blustered that the U.S. remains unchanged in its stand to demand "north Korea completely dismantle its nuclear program in a verifiable and irreversible manner", it is a top priority to put pressure upon north Korea to abandon its nuclear program and it will be an effective alternative to apply economic sanctions against it if it goes ahead with its nuclear program. These outcries are nothing new to the DPRK.
    It considered Cheney as a mentally deranged person steeped in the inveterate enmity towards the system in the DPRK long ago as he is the boss of the neo-conservative forces in the U.S.
    But if it was true that Cheney officially made such reckless remarks representing the stand of the U.S. administration, this would be not a simple matter.
    The U.S. has no right to pull up the DPRK, not a defeated country, over its nuclear issue. It is ridiculous enough for the U.S. to force an "irreversible dismantlement" upon the DPRK.
    The DPRK has no idea of dealing with the U.S. any longer if the latter insists on the disgusting CVID.
    The DPRK has already made it clear that it would consider the U.S. economic sanctions against it as a declaration of a war.
    This is its irreversible stand.
    It is quite understandable that the U.S. can not sleep in peace, terror-stricken by "Al Qaeda", but its unreasonably linking the DPRK to such organization is an expression of total ignorance and nothing but a far-fetched attempt to justify its hostile policy towards the DPRK.
    Action is inevitably followed by reaction.
    The DPRK is seriously contemplating a measure to counter the U.S. off-repeated demand that it scrap its nuclear program first.