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KCNA on Working Group Meeting of Six-Party Talks

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, May 10 (KCNA) -- As already reported, a meeting of the working group of the six-party talks is expected to open in Beijing on May 12 under an agreement reached at the second round of the six-party talks. The international community unanimously hoped that the meeting would prove fruitful, deeply concerned for it.
    The meeting, the first of its kind in the process of the talks, would predict the prospect of the third round of the six-party talks to be held in the future because what agenda items the participating countries will take up and on what they should focus their discussion pose as a very serious matter.
    The proposal of "reward for freeze" should be taken up as the major agenda item at the meeting whatever the cost and only then the meeting would satisfactorily attain its objective. This is the stand of the DPRK. This is a flexible proposal advanced by the DPRK as a first-phase measure, taking into full account the fact that there exists no confidence between the DPRK and the U.S. and Washington is not yet ready to accept Pyongyang's proposal of a package solution based on the principle of simultaneous actions all at once.
    It is the assertion of the DPRK that it should commit itself to scrap its nuclear program in return for the U.S. commitment to renounce its hostile policy toward the DPRK on the principle of "verbal commitments" and "action for action" and the U.S. and those countries concerned should make due compensation to the DPRK for its freeze of its nuclear program. This is an indisputably just and fair stand.
    The DPRK will participate in the meeting to discuss this issue. It is ready to take a positive and fair stand and attitude so as to make the meeting successful.
    However, the rumor has it that the U.S. still insists on its assertion that the DPRK should make the CVID and is set to unilaterally pressurize the latter to accept it at the upcoming meeting.
    Such unreasonable stand of the U.S. would only throw a hurdle in the way of the meeting. In that case the discussion of the issue would not proceed smoothly but will only spark off argument and the meeting would make it impossible to expect any success from the third round of the six-party talks. The DPRK is of the view that it would feel no need to sit with the U.S. at the negotiating table if the U.S. persistently insists on its wrong assertion that the DPRK should dismantle its nuclear program "in an irreversible manner" and the like in a bid to force the DPRK to disarm itself.
    The DPRK, however, will participate in the working group meeting with patience and magnanimity, proceeding from the stand to seek a negotiated peaceful solution to the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S.. It takes two hands to make handclap. It is self-evident that the efforts exerted by the DPRK side alone would not be enough to make the meeting successful.
    The meeting can prove successful only when the U.S. responds to the DPRK's concession with concession and returns its magnanimity with magnanimity.
    Chances are not always available.
    The U.S. had better seize this opportunity to make a switchover in its stand.