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DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman on Meeting of Working Group of Six-way Talks

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA Thursday as regards the opening of the meeting of the working group of the six-way talks: A meeting of the working group of the six-way talks is slated to open in Beijing on May 12 under an agreement reached at the second round of the six-way talks.
    Public attention is now focused on the agenda items to be taken up at the meeting and diverse rumors are afloat in this regard.
    It is very important for the meeting of the working group to adopt proper agenda items to attain its purpose.
    The DPRK side will attend this meeting to discuss the proposal "reward for freeze" under any circumstances.
    As already known, the DPRK side advanced the flexible proposal "reward for freeze" as the first-phase measure at the last round of the six-way talks taking into consideration the fact that there exists no confidence between the DPRK and the U.S. and Washington is not yet ready to accept the proposal for a package solution based on the principle of simultaneous actions all at once.
    A bright prospect will be opened for the solution of the nuclear issue if Pyongyang commits itself to scrap its nuclear weapons program in return for Washington's announcement of its commitment to renounce its hostile policy toward the former on the principle of "verbal commitment" and "action for action" and the U.S. and the countries concerned make compensation for Pyongyang's freeze of its nuclear program.
    The U.S. seems to stick to its stand to demand Pyongyang's CVID of its nuclear program. But that will only throw a higher hurdle in the way of the talks.
    The U.S. is putting pressure upon the DPRK, talking about "irreversible" or something like that although it is not a defeated nation. If the U.S. insists on this stand, the DPRK does not feel any need to sit at the negotiating table with it.
    The DPRK will participate in the above-said meeting with patience and magnanimity but any efforts made by it alone are not enough to make the meeting successful.
    Everything will depend on the U.S. attitude.
    The U.S. attempt to while away time, insisting on its wrong assertion, would not do it good, either.
    The DPRK is by no means impatient.